About Nina Brink

Nina Brink was born on the 21st of July 1953 in the South of Amsterdam. Her maiden name is Nina Vleeschdrager. When Nina was three years old, the Hungarian revolution broke out in Budapest. The jewish parents of Nina decided out of fear for renewed atrocities to emigrate to Canada. In this country, the family is known as Drageur.

At the age of 18, Nina Brink returns to the Netherlands together with her mother, after her father having passed away suddenly. Already during her study Psychology at Rijksuniversiteit Leiden she developes a keen interest for business.

Nina Brink's ex-husband started a company in distribution of electronic parts and components, called MCA Tronix, because the name was used by a record company (MCA Records), the name was soon changed to AKAM International. At AKAM International Nina Brink worked as Marketing Director to start thereafter her own distribution company. In 1987, Nina and her second husband Ab Brink founded A-Line Technologies, which distributed computer components. It is the start of very fortunate career: at the young age of 30, Nina Brink has already got a capital of tens of milions of Guilders.

In the nineties, Nina Brink turns out to be a very forward thinking business woman. In 1995, she founds the company World Online, as the European equivalent of AOL. The company is very succesful and a fine example of the New Economy. In 1998, the decision is taken to take World Online public and this happens on the 17th of March, 2000. Investors are really anticipating this event and there's a lot of interest for stocks of World Online and the stock quotes are rising quickly. As a result, some of the main investors of World Online decide to sell their stocks.

This arouses suspicion amongst investors and within a short span of time a lot of stocks are sold, with causes the stock quotes to descrease with tens of percents within a couple of weeks. Nina Brink had already sold her stocks prior to World Online going public and she was critised for this. In the same year, Nina Brink leaves World Online, which is sold later that year to Tiscali.

In 2003, World Online is pronounced guilty for misleading investors. In 2007, the court of Amsterdam also pronounces the banks involved guilty for providing an incorrect and incomplete prospectus.

After having left World Online, Nina Brink withdraws from public life and starts to work on new projects in silence.