John D. Pinkel is a Partner of Indus Capital, based in San Francisco, and the Portfolio Manager of the Indus Select Strategy since its inception in 2009. Mr. Pinkel joined Indus Capital in March 2003 and soon after spearheaded many of the firm’s largest long-term investments in China and Taiwan. He joined Indus from Citigroup, where he was Managing Director and Head of Equities for Taiwan. Prior to that, he spent eight years as a securities analyst in Hong Kong, China and South Korea.

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In total, he has lived and worked in Asia for over 35 years. Mr. Pinkel, a CFA charterholder, graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a BS in Applied Mathematics. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.