Rennie is an 11th-generation partner of C. Hoare & Co. He leads the bank’s philanthropy strategy and chairs the Master Charitable Trust.
Rennie is an 11th-generation partner of C. Hoare & Co. He leads the bank’s philanthropy strategy and chairs the Master Charitable Trust.
He serves on the Advisory Council of the Impact Investing Institute and founded the UK Donor Advised Fund (DAF) Leaders Forum. Rennie is also a member of the Philanthropists' Reference Group, which advises on collaboration between government and philanthropists: the work of C. Hoare & Co. and the Master Charitable Trust featured in case studies for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s Our Place to Give strategy to promote philanthropy in disadvantaged areas of the UK.
A respected voice on philanthropy, DAFs and impact investing, Rennie is a regular speaker at the London Business School and other professional institutions. He has contributed thought-leadership articles to the International Institute for Management Development, KPMG, and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, and his views have been published in the Financial Times and the Daily Telegraph.
Rennie has won Philanthropy Adviser of the Year in the Spear’s Wealth Management Awards and CityWealth Magic Circle Awards; he was named in the PAM Top 40 Under 40 list and has been listed as a Top Recommended Philanthropy Adviser in the Spear’s 500 since 2019. Under his leadership, C. Hoare & Co. won Philanthropy Team of the Year at the STEP Private Client Awards, while the Master Charitable Trust won Best UK Donor Advised Fund at the PAM Awards.
