Margaret Anadu

Margaret is the CEO and Founder of One Weaver. She is an experienced investor and business leader known for building scaled investment platforms and for helping establish affordable and workforce housing as an institutional asset class.

Over the course of her career, Margaret has invested over $11 billion across hundreds of transactions throughout the United States. Her work has combined rigorous investing with an emphasis on expanding access to capital in underserved communities and historically undercapitalized segments of the capital markets.

Margaret spent nearly two decades at Goldman Sachs, where she was a Partner and served as Global Head of Sustainability and Impact for Asset Management and as Head of the Urban Investment Group, the firm’s primary impact investing business. Under her leadership, the platform grew to investing more than $2 billion annually across affordable and workforce housing, community facilities, education, infrastructure, small businesses and other sectors.

In 2022, Margaret co-founded and partnered with the Vistria Group to launch a real estate strategy which she grew from an idea to nearly $4 billion of regulatory assets under management. The real estate strategy not only included one of the largest, dedicated institutional residential funds in the United States but was one of the most successful real estate franchise launches in the last decade.

Margaret has been recognized by numerous organizations for the impact of her work, including being named one of the most influential figures in U.S. commercial real estate by Commercial Observer and being named to 40 Under 40 lists by Fortune, Black Enterprise and Crain’s. As an experienced investor and thought leader on public-private partnerships, Margaret is often asked to share her views including appearances on CBS, CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC and Yahoo Finance.

Margaret currently serves as Chair of the Board of the New York City Economic Development Corporation and is a member of the board of the Mellon Foundation, NewYork-Presbyterian, the Urban Institute and Enterprise Community Partners. She holds a B.A. from Harvard College and lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and two children.

Her passion for communities began in her childhood home on WEAVER Road in Houston (Texas), while her vision for how capital could have an impact began during her first full-time job at ONE New York Plaza as an analyst in sales and trading at Goldman Sachs.