Gina Nisbeth

Gina D. Nisbeth is the founder and president of 9th & Clinton, a national Black woman-owned consulting 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 3 years. She was previously 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.

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. Since its inception in 2020, along with her co-founder, she has placed 72% (over 100 fellows in all) in professional roles within the industry. She also chairs the board of the Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership (IFEL) and is a board member for Stonehenge Community Development.

This year, Gina was awarded the 2nd Annual Robert E. Ibanez Award for Outstanding Achievement in Community Development. Finally, Gina has written a prescriptive-nonfiction memoir, loosely based on her Wall Street career, that is seeking a literary agent.

Her most important role, however, is as "Mom" to two grown children and "Gigi" to her 6-year-old grandson.