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.

Mr. Shidler, the first in his immediate family to graduate from college, recently launched Educational Infrastructure LLC. Educational Infrastructure was formed to manage Mr. Shidler’s and The Shidler Family Foundation’s structured gifts of Student Housing communities to public Community Colleges in California.

Also see: Jay H. Shidler – Wikipedia

Kimberly Aquino

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

Ms. Aquino was named president of The Shidler Family Foundation and is a driving force behind Educational Infrastructure LLC. Educational Infrastructure, along with the Foundation, play a key role in the donation of student housing complexes to California Community Colleges.

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. She was a key to organizing new investment vehicles, including Corporate Office Properties Trust, Inc. (NYSE: OFC) and Primus Guaranty, Ltd. (NYSE: PRS).

Andrew (“Andy”) Brown

Andrew Brown is Managing Director of Educational Infrastructure.

Andy brings extensive experience in real estate investment and university partnerships, having delivered thousands of student housing beds and major research facilities across California’s higher education systems. His work focuses on creating structures that leverage the unique strengths of public institutions while introducing efficiencies from private practice, guided by a deep understanding of the challenges facing higher education.

By structuring partnerships that balance these forces, he has advanced initiatives that deliver greater economic benefit than either approach alone, showing that long-term performance is shaped more by the efficiency of the enterprise than by a single component. This work has helped universities expand capacity, sustain affordability, and build long-term resilience.

Currently, Andy is focused on providing affordable student housing to the critically underserved California Community College system, helping expand access to higher education across the state.