Hans Buder

Hans Buder is the founder of Partners in Opportunity (PIO) and served as the organization’s Executive Director for the first six years of its existence. While Hans has stepped back from day-to-day operations, he continues to work on special projects and initiatives for PIO, and serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors. Hans is also the founder of The Moving to Opportunity Fund, a social impact real estate manager with a double-bottom line mission: to pioneer a scalable impact investing model that puts low-income children born into concentrated poverty on the path to college, while delivering market rate returns for investors. Prior to founding PIO and the MTO Fund, Hans was a project manager at McCormack Baron Salazar (MBS), a social impact real estate development firm that specializes in mixed-income housing and the revitalization of distressed urban neighborhoods. While at MBS, Hans underwrote LIHTC developments across the country and helped to manage the transformation of the Alice Griffith public housing project in the Bayview Hunters Point area of San Francisco into a mixed-income community through HUD’s Choice Neighborhoods Program.

Prior to entering the affordable housing space, Hans served as Associate Director of Acquisitions at Long Wharf Capital, a Boston-based real estate private equity firm (and the former private real estate arm of Fidelity Investments). Prior to joining Long Wharf, Hans taught in an inner-city public school in post-Katrina New Orleans as a member of Teach for America.

Hans holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business (where he graduated in the top 5% of his class as an Arjay Miller Scholar), a Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a Bachelor of Arts from Duke University (where he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa). He previously served as Chair of the Board of Commissioners of the Monterey County Housing Authority.