Ali Kashani has over 20 years experience both in the not-for-profit and in the private sector real estate development in the Bay Area in Northern California. As founding Executive Director of Affordable Housing Associates (AHA) (www.ahainc.org) between 1994 and 2004, Mr. Kashani completed over 20 developments ranging from substantial rehabilitation of an existing occupied 100-unit apartment community, to new construction of a 62-unit senior housing development, to conversion of a boarded-up rubber processing plant into 38 live/work lofts, to repositioning a 20,000 square-foot former movie theater to a successful retail/housing project. During his tenure at AHA, Mr. Kashani oversaw or otherwise completed acquisition, entitlement, public and private financing, rehabilitation, construction and management of over 1,000 housing units in the Bay Area.  

After completing his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering at UC Berkeley in 1984, Mr. Kashani worked as a Project Engineer, Cost Estimator and Project Manager for General Engineering Contractors and developers in the Bay Area. In 1990, he completed his Master of Nonprofit Administration at the University of San Francisco, while working as a Senior Project Manager for a Berkeley-based nonprofit developer.