Tom Foster

Tom Foster, a former commercial real estate investment banker, is now retired and based in Virginia horse country where he lives with his partner, Steve Dahllof, a couple horses and two Hungarian Vizslas.

After practicing law in Chicago for two years in the 1980’s, Tom spent thirty years in commercial real estate, raising several billion dollars of institutional capital for privately owned investment firms.  He cut his professional teeth at JMB Realty in Chicago and moved on to represent a variety of firms based throughout the United States and Europe, mostly through the firm he founded, Quince Hill Partners.

In 2010, Tom moved to Hong Kong for four years, and traveled extensively throughout the Eastern Hemisphere.   Since returning to the United States in 2014, he has split his time between his Virginia farm and a home in Los Angeles, California, focusing his time on private investments and philanthropy.

Tom has served on the Boards of the Middleburg Film Festival and The United States Board of Fauna and Flora International (founded in 1903, the oldest environmental organization in the world).  He is an emeritus member of the National Public Radio Foundation and the Contemporary American Theater Festival.  He was a member of the 2007 Class of Leadership Greater Washington, D.C.

Tom graduated from Duke University in 1976 with a B.A., magna cum laude, in economics.  He received his J.D. from the University of Michigan in 1979.