Rebecca Foster

Rebecca Foster (she/her) is the founding CEO of the San Francisco Housing Accelerator Fund, a public private partnership that provides powerful new tools to improve the delivery of affordable housing. Since 2017, the Fund has created permanent housing affordability for over 4,000 residents throughout the greater San Francisco Bay Area.

Previously, Rebecca served as Director of Social Impact Investment under the late Mayor of San Francisco Ed Lee, and before that was a Vice President in Public Sector & Infrastructure investment banking at Goldman Sachs, where she raised capital for local governments, universities, non-profits, and utilities around the country. She received her BA. from Brown University and her MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In 2020 Governor Newsom appointed Rebecca to the Board of Directors of the California Housing Partnership Corporation. Rebecca also serves on San Francisco’s Affordable Housing Leadership Council and on the boards of the Non-Profit Housing Association of California (NPH), San Francisco Friends School, and ARTA, a whitewater rafting organization. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and three boys.