Bob Rennie

Bob Rennie (born 1956) is a real estate marketer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the owner and founder of Rennie Marketing Systems, which is Vancouver's largest real estate marketing firm. He is known colloquially as the "condo king". Rennie is also involved in the art community in Vancouver and throughout North America, and maintains his own art museum in Chinatown’s Wing Sang building.

Bob Rennie was born in 1956 and raised in East Vancouver on East 5th. His mother was a homemaker and waitress, and his father a truck driver for Carling Brewery. Rennie started selling East Side homes at the age of 19. He began selling condos in Vancouver in 1990 with Dan Ulinder, forming Ulinder Rennie Project Marketing. In 1997 Rennie bought out Ulinder and established Rennie Marketing Systems.

Bob Rennie lives in Vancouver with his family, including his son Kris Rennie who is Managing Director of Rennie Group.

He has marketed such projects as Fairmont Pacific Rim, Living Shangri-La (Vancouver’s tallest tower) and Vancouver's 2010 Olympic Village. Other projects include the Woodward's Building and One Wall Centre.

Rennie Collection, one of the largest collections of contemporary art in Canada, has evolved since 1974, when the first acquisition was made, to focus on works related to identity, social injustice, appropriation, painting and photography. The collection is dedicated not only to the acquisition of established international artists, but also the work of emerging artists. Currently there are approximately 48 artists collected in depth with over 370 artists in total. The collection, while based in Vancouver, is usually spread across the globe, on loan to institutions like Guggenheim Museum New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Smithsonian and Tate, amongst many others.

A former chair of the North America Acquisitions Committee (NAAC) at Tate Museum in London,, Rennie is a member of the Tate International Council. In 2015, Rennie joined the Board of Trustees at The Art Institute of Chicago. Since 2006, Rennie sits on the Dean's Advisory Board to the Faculty of Arts at the University of British Columbia. In recognition of his dedication to the arts and the arts community, he received an honorary doctorate of letters from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2008, and was appointed to the university’s Board of Governors in 2009.

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