Chris serves as the director of PNC's Planned Giving Solutions group. His responsibilities include oversight of a team of Planned Giving relationship managers and Investment professionals and ensuring that there is a consistent delivery of investment advice, administration and education to PNC’s local and national Planned Giving clients. His team provides insight in the areas of life-income gift administration and investments for charitable gift annuities, charitable remainder trusts, and pooled income funds and works with clients to create specific administrative and investment programs designed to help meet their needs.
Chris started his planned giving career with Mercantile Bank & Trust in 1992. In 2000, he became the director of gift planning at Catholic Charities of Baltimore where he was responsible for securing a significant number of gift annuities and memberships in the planned gift recognition society. In 2003, Chris returned to Mercantile and became part of PNC Bank following the acquisition of Mercantile in 2007.
Chris graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with concentrations in finance, marketing and management from Towson University. He currently serves on the board of the Northeast Florida Planned Giving Council. Chris served on the board of the National Association of Charitable Gift Planners (NACGP) from 2015 to 2018, and as its chair in 2018. He is a past board member and treasurer of the National Capital Gift Planning Council in DC and the Chesapeake Planned Giving Council in MD. He frequently serves as a guest speaker at conferences and educational programs across the country.
