Margaret Anadu

Margaret Anadu is CEO and Founder of One Weaver, is an investor and business leader known for building scaled, high-performing investment platforms and helping define affordable and workforce housing as an institutional asset class. She also chairs the Board of Directors of the New York City Economic Development Corporation.

Margaret has devoted her career to investing which not only generates strong economic returns, but importantly has a demonstrable positive impact on underserved individuals, families, and communities. Margaret is widely recognized as one of the foremost experts on equitable access to capital having invested over $10 billion across hundreds of transactions throughout the United States and was named one of the most influential figures in U.S. commercial real estate by Commercial Observer. As an experienced investor and thought leader on public-private partnerships, Margaret has shared her views on CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC and Yahoo Finance and was named to 40 Under 40 lists by Fortune, Black Enterprise and Crain’s.

Prior to joining Vistria, Margaret was a Partner at Goldman Sachs where she was the Global Head of Sustainability and Impact for Asset Management and head of the Urban Investment Group (GSUIG), the first impact investing platform at a major U.S. financial institution and Goldman Sachs’ primary impact investing business. Under her leadership, GSUIG invested over $2 billion annually primarily in real estate with a focus on workforce, affordable, and mixed-income housing in addition to community facilities, educational space, industrial facilities, and green infrastructure.