John Gardner
Mr. Gardner, now retired, was Vice President of Buvermo Investments, Inc., which represents several Dutch investors, and provides entrepreneurial equity capital for commercial and residential real estate investments in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Mr. Gardner served for 20 years as President of Buvermo, and for the past 13 years has continued to act as an active investor and advisor.
He moved to the Washington, DC area in 1978, serving as Vice President in charge of the shopping center portfolio for the B.F. Saul REIT until 1981. Mr. Gardner served as Executive Vice President of the Kaempfer Company at that time primarily a DC office developer from 1981 until he joined Buvermo in 1984.
Following graduation from Princeton, Mr. Gardner was commissioned as an Ensign in the US Navy. He spent the majority of his military career on Vice Admiral Rickover’s staff, stationed in Washington, DC, and involved in nuclear reactor design and development.
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Members
WHC is governed by an independent board of civic leaders.
Joshua Bernstein
CEO, Bernstein Management Corporation
Kevin Clinton
Board Chair
Chief Program Officer, Federal City Council
Carol Thompson Cole
President + CEO, Youth Invest Partners
Kimberly Driggins
Chief Executive Officer, WHC
Maria S. Gomez
Former President + CEO, Mary’s Center
Kevin Greer
Managing Partner & Chief Administrative Officer, New Profit
Mark Joseph
Founding Director, NP3: Nurturing People. Power. Place.
David Martin
Partner, ArentFox Schiff
David Roodberg
CEO, DJR Assoc.
Eshauna Smith
Director of Community Impact, Ballmer Group
Aakash Thakkar
Chief Acquisitions Officer, EYA, LLC
Rob Stewart
Board Emeritus
Chair, JBG SMITH’s Board of Trustees
Founding Board Members
Tamara Copeland
Former WRAG President
Charlene Drew Jarvis
Former DC Councilmember
John Gardner
Former VP of Buvermo Investments
Cary Hatch
Former Managing Director of Hart Inc.
Deborah Ratner-Salzberg
Partner at Uplands Real Estate Partners
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Kimberly Driggins
Chief Executive Officer
Monica Cardenas Guzman
Social Impact Coordinator
Destiny Delaware
Social Impact Program Manager
Jackie Keller
Office Manager & Executive Assistant
Shannon Marshall
Social Impact Coordinator
Arianna Martinez
Social Impact Coordinator
Yvette Ross Kane
Director of Asset Management
Kathy Smith
Director of Development
Fusing commercial real estate expertise with a social impact mission.
We disrupt inequities in the housing market with an innovative model that prevents displacement and promotes opportunity and wealth building.
Preserving housing affordability and promoting economic mobility in the DC-region
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