Mentor
Sally Tennant OBE
Overview
Sally Tennant is an experienced CEO, investor and board director who has spent her career advising and leading sophisticated investors, families and financial institutions. She is the Founder of Acorn Capital Advisers, an independent advisory firm to ultra-high net worth individuals, families and their trustees, providing strategic investment, family office and philanthropic advice and, for a select group of families, acting as an outsourced private office. She brings a long track record in private banking, wealth management and investment, coupled with deep experience of governance and family dynamics.
Alongside her work at Acorn Capital Advisers, Sally holds a number of significant board and advisory roles. She is a non-executive director of B-Flexion Group Holdings and Younited Holdings. She also plays a leading role in the cultural and philanthropic sphere as a Trustee and Chair of the Investment Committee of the Royal Academy Trust, and as a patron of the charity Tommy’s. Across these roles she is known for combining strategic clarity with a disciplined, long-term approach to capital allocation and risk.
Sally’s executive career includes several CEO positions in private banking. From 2011 to 2014 she was CEO of Kleinwort Benson, where she led the repositioning of the business and strengthened its client franchise. Previously she was Chief Executive of Lombard Odier (UK) and Chief Executive of Schroders Private Banking, working closely with international clients, family offices and entrepreneurs.
Sally brings deep cross-sector expertise in:
• Private banking & wealth management – CEO roles at leading private banking and wealth institutions.
• Investment governance & capital allocation – board, chair and investment committee roles across financial and investment groups.
• Board leadership & governance – chair, non-executive and advisory positions in regulated financial services businesses.
• Arts, culture & philanthropy – long-standing involvement with the Royal Academy Trust and charitable organisations.
She holds a degree in Politics from the University of Durham, and brings to her mentoring and advisory work a calm, pragmatic style grounded in many years of leading businesses and partnering with families through change, succession and transition.
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Download PDFMajor Current Roles
Acorn Capital Advisers Ltd
Non-Executive Director and Founder
B-Flexion Group Holdings SA
Non-Executive Director
Younited Financial SA
Non-Executive Director
Royal Academy Trust
Trustee & Chair of Investment Committee
Other Career Highlights
Canaccord Genuity Group Inc
Non-Executive
Style Analytics Ltd
Chair
Point72 UK Ltd
Chair
Duncan Lawrie Holdings Ltd
Chair
Kleinwort Benson Bank Ltd
CEO
Lombard Odier (UK) Ltd
CEO
Private Banking, Schroders plc
CEO
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