Helen is Chairman and Co-founder of the Greenwich-based HB Nitkin Group, a real estate investment, management and development company that she founded with her late husband, Bradley in 1984. The firm owns a portfolio of commercial and residential properties located throughout Connecticut and New York. In 2009 after his death she assumed the position of Chairman. Prior to forming The HB Nitkin Group, Helen worked for a NYC based real estate development company that was an early pioneer in the conversion of commercial properties to residential followed by positions as both a residential and commercial broker. 

Helen has held leadership positions as the President of The Association of Real Estate Women and a board member of Young Men’s/Women’s Real Estate Association.  She has served on the board of The Bruce Museum chairing multiple committees and is a member of the Dean’s Council of the Yale School of Architecture. 

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