
Kristine Leary
Director, Private Markets, Builders Initiative
Kristine Leary is the Director, Private Markets on the Builders Initiative Investment Team.

Before joining Builders Vision, Kristine was Director of Asset Management at Emerson Collective, where she was responsible for investment sourcing, evaluation, and asset allocation across several portfolios of mission-aligned assets.
Prior to that, Kristine has held a variety of roles in the impact and institutional investment industry. She previously worked at Provenance Capital Group, a boutique financial services firm focused on regenerative agriculture, and with a division of the Omidyar Network dedicated to sustainable investments in Hawai'i. She started her career at Cambridge Associates, where she worked on the Sustainability & Impact Investing team conducting research and due diligence on high-impact investment opportunities, and partnering with mission-driven investors to build portfolios.
Kristine holds an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and a BS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She loves to cook, travel, and is a (very) amateur gardener. She can most often be found exploring the Bay Area’s many parks and neighborhoods with her husband and their two dogs.