Nina has over 35 years of experience in lodging asset management, operations, acquisitions, and consulting to maximize each owner’s investment objectives. As Executive Vice President, Nina deploys industry-leading asset management practices focused on revenue management and profit opportunities as well as real estate, capital, and contract optimization. She has experience with a wide array of hotels from luxury to midscale, both domestically as well as in the Caribbean and Mexico.
- Prior to hotelAVE, Nina worked as Vice President for IHG where she headed Investment Analysis
- Prior to IHG, Nina’s experience includes Vice President at LaSalle Hotel Properties, Consultant to Executive Director at Westmont Hospitality Group, and Lender Due Diligence Consultant at The Hudson Group. At Lehman Brothers, she was lead lodging and gaming analyst and at Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC) she performed acquisition analyses, feasibility studies, and appraisals of individual hotels as well as portfolios in the U.S., Caribbean, and Latin America.
- Nina began her career at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Fransico, where she held a variety of rooms division management positions
Nina graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science in Hotel Administration. She also holds a Masters degree in Business Administration from Haas School of Business, University of California – Berkeley. She is a member of the Hospitality Asset Managers Association (HAMA). She is co-chair of the CHS annual Big Apple Update and has been named one of the 30 Influential Women in Hospitality by Hotel Management Magazine (October 2019). Nina is also a Certified Hotel Asset Manager (CHAM). Nina co-authored the article How to Drive Luxury Rates in Non-Luxury Destinations (2025).