Nina de Cecco Walsh

Nina joined Trust for Learning in 2017 and oversees operations, planning, and execution of all Trust-hosted convenings and grants management. Nina’s educational background is in business administration and her initial career path focus was in hospital-based administration as the assistant to the Professor of Surgery within the Department of Postgraduate Medicine and Biological Sciences, a postgraduate teaching and research facility at North Staffordshire Hospital. After relocating to the United States, Nina was able to apply her extensive experience in leadership, administration, and communication to work with a world-renowned music producer. In this role, she gained experience working on large-scale, commercially successful recording productions for such artists as Frank Sinatra, Elton John, Billy Joel, and Spice Girls as well as production assistant for the live TV recording of the annual Grammy Awards.

She later joined Lime Rock Partners as executive and personal assistant to one of the founding partners and after several years moved into the role of Global Events Coordinator, a role she helped to create. After relocating to Massachusetts in 2013 Nina worked in various roles in education from Kindergarten to 5th grade as a teaching assistant, substitute teacher in various grades, and eventually taking on a full-time position as a special education teaching assistant working with one student. Nina lives near Boston with her husband and two high school-age sons, and in her spare time enjoys horseback riding, and hiking and is an active parent volunteer during her son’s wrestling and rowing seasons.