Nina is currently Head Chef onboard a 67m Superyacht, and she is presenting the Superyacht Chef Cookery House Course. She was born to yachting parents and grew up looking at photos of their super yacht circumnavigation. This made her dream for a life on the high seas.

Her obsession with food also began early, preferring to watch cooking shows rather than cartoons. Plus, with her parents afore-mentioned world travels, she got to get a good taste of the world through their cooking from her childhood coastal home in Queensland, Australia.

Post-school she took a few career detours, training to become a dive instructor on the Great Barrier Reef, skippering sailing boats in Greece, and even starting an officers courses before finally realising that I she should be around food for most of her waking hours. 

After running a small sailing yacht with her partner and jumping into the ‘chef’ role a little bit blind, she decided to get into the cheffing world and attend culinary school. Since then, she has stepped in front of the chopping board and not looked back.

She has been very lucky to work under some brilliant head chefs, and she attributes most of her culinary education from being on the job – especially working on fast paced charter yachts where you never know what the guests are going to order.

Working onboard a yacht, where the menu changes daily and the guests change weekly – being adaptable is a key quality that she has had to develop as a chef. Luckily, she loves her job and it’s safe to say that she is food obsessed – at her happiest with either a very sharp knife or a loaded fork in hand.