Jeff Hood

Jeff Hood

Jeff has been an influential and respected presence on Wall Street for the last 30 years. Prior to founding Theia Analytics Group, Jeff was the co- founder of VogelHood Research. Jeff began his career at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in institutional sales. At C.J. Lawrence he became the youngest Director of institutional sales trading and ultimately Senior Vice President of US sales trading, responsible for all major institutional accounts. Later, at Dillon Read, Jeff served as Senior Vice President of US equity sales trading.

During his fifteen years as Managing Director of US sales trading at Fox-Pitt, Kelton, Jeff was integral to the firm’s growth from 40 to 400 employees and its ultimate global ranking as the #1 financial equity research firm in the world, leading to its acquisition by Swiss Re in 1999. Jeff later moved to Sterne Agee where he built and managed their US institutional equity platform for six years.

Throughout Jeff’s Wall Street career he has covered all major institutional clients, his focus has always been and will continue to be providing the highest level of client service.