Mr. Hinze is a senior vice president in the portfolio management group in the Newport Beach office, focusing on special situations and private equity investments. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2013, he was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, covering the technology and financial sectors. He also served six years in the U.S. Army and Air Force, with his last assignment as a Captain and combat adviser to the Iraqi Army. He has 14 years of investment and financial services experience and holds an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an undergraduate degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.