Chris McGurn

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 Institutional 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.

Chris obtained the CAP ® designation in 2024. He currently serves on the board of the Northeast Florida Planned Giving Council and on the National Association of Charitable Gift Planners (NACGP) as chair of the Board Management Committee. Chris also 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 frequent presenter at CGP Council conferences including local, regional and National events.

Graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with concentrations in finance, marketing, and management from Towson University, 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.