Born and raised on the North Shore, Nina grew up surrounded by family in the real estate industry. Builders, realtors, developers and contractors. She is a graduate of the Urban Land Economics program at UBC, as well as the BCIT School of Business (Marketing Management/Professional Real Estate).She began her career in 1990 in Industrial Sales and Leasing for Canada Trust Commercial Real Estate in Vancouver. In 1994 she launched and successfully built a communications, marketing, and media company in which she remain as one of the shareholder.