Hideki Kinuhata is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of SILQ Capital, a Japan-focused, fundamental, long-short investment manager based in Tokyo. Before founding SILQ Capital, Mr. Kinuhata was a Partner at Goldman Sachs, where he had a 24-year career in investment management and trading. Mr. Kinuhata was Co-Chief Investment Manager for the Goldman Sachs Investment Partners (GSIP) Global Public Equity Portfolio from 2018. Prior to assuming this role, he was Co-Head of GSIP’s Pan-Asia Portfolio, which he helped launch in 2008. He was also Co-Chief Investment Officer of the GSIP Pan-Asia fund, Oryza Capital, which launched in 2013. Before joining GSIP, he was a member of the Goldman Sachs Principal Strategies Group (GSPS). He joined GSPS in 2003 and led the group managing the Japan portfolio for three years from 2005. He started his career at Goldman Sachs in 1995, working as an equity and equity-derivatives trader.