Gina D. Nisbeth is the founder and president of 9th & Clinton, a national Black woman-owned firm that provides strategic advisory and investment structuring expertise to real estate developers, fund managers, nonprofits and for-profit organizations investing in low-income communities for impact. Her clients rely on her to provide community development industry expertise, build, and implement programs, source capital for real estate and operating business projects, expand executive capacity and to research market trends.

Gina has 30 years of experience in structured finance, 15 in the community development finance industry, and has operated her advisory firm for the last 2 years. She was last employed by Citibank (Citi) where she managed their $1 billion New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) portfolio including the structuring and origination of investments and loans to more than 50 for-profit and nonprofit businesses that built commercial real estate and/or grew operating businesses in low-income communities across America. At Citi, she also managed an $800 private equity portfolio with investments in affordable housing and small business assets.

In 2020, she structured and placed $200 million of private equity capital with emerging diverse fund managers of affordable housing preservation funds and closed $30 million in affordable housing construction loan participations with minority deposit institutions (MDIs). Her last role with Citi was serving as their inaugural Executive on Loan to an MDI in Houston, TX as part of their racial equity initiative.

Her previous experience includes 10 years as a short-term municipal bond derivatives trader. She grew the platform from $6 to $43 billion, the second largest in the industry, and traded the portfolio through the financial crisis of 2007-2009.

Gina is also the co-founder of Open Access, a nonprofit fellowship program whose mission is to increase the representation of diverse leaders within the community development finance industry.

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