Managing Partners

Jay Shidler

Jay Shidler is the Founder and a Managing Partner of The Shidler Group. A nationally recognized expert and innovator in the fields of finance and real estate investment, Mr. Shidler has a proven ability to identify significant emerging trends and to organize and capitalize new companies to benefit from those trends.

Mr. Shidler received a Bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Hawaiʻi in 1968. Upon graduation, he was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He completed his military service in 1971 and returned to Honolulu to form The Shidler Group.

It was in Hawaiʻi, where much of the Land is on long-term Ground Leases, that Mr. Shidler first realized the benefit of the inherent non-debt financial leverage provided by Ground Leases. As an active owner/operator, first in Hawaiʻi and next in Manhattan, he began to acquire buildings on Land that was Ground Leased to reduce his equity investments and to enhance the returns on those investments.

It is ironic that now, 50 years later, as a passive investor and on behalf of his philanthropic activities, Mr. Shidler acquires the Land underlying the very type of Leasehold improvements that he purchased as part of his earliest investment strategy.

Mr. Shidler is an active supporter of numerous educational, cultural, and charitable organizations, including The Shidler College of Business at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and The Shidler Family Foundation. Also see: Jay H. Shidler – Wikipedia

Kimberly Aquino

Ms. Aquino is a Managing Partner of The Shidler Group, overseeing operations including acquisitions, financing, and asset management.

Since joining The Shidler Group in 1991, Ms. Aquino has been integral to the development of the Group’s most successful ventures, including the founding of many of its public and private companies. Ms. Aquino was named Partner in 2009 and Managing Partner in 2013.

Since 2013, Ms. Aquino has overseen over $6 billion in commercial real estate acquisitions and financings.

From 1995 through 2009, Ms. Aquino served as Assistant and Senior Vice President responsible for organizing new investment vehicles, including Corporate Office Properties Trust, Inc. (NYSE: OFC) and Primus Guaranty, Ltd. (NYSE: PRS), and completed the founding and capitalization of several privately held CRE operating companies.

Ms. Aquino joined the Group in its Honolulu office in 1991 as an associate in finance and operations and then as a senior associate in research and development. Ms. Aquino began her career at the residential broker, Locations, Inc.