Hideo joined DKA Asset Management in 1991 as a retail sector analyst after graduating from Kwansei Gakuin University with a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Economics. He later moved to Cazenove and Co. as a small cap analyst, where he spent eleven years including a period working in the head office in London.
In 2003, he joined KBC Securities in Tokyo and was a director of the Japanese Equity Sales Department, where he was responsible not only for investment analysis of non-specific sectors but for research-sales for institutional investors.
He is a Chartered Member of Analyst Association of Japan.