team

Chris Smith

Founder & Managing Director

Cutting his teeth DJing, promoting club nights and editing the college music pages while at university, Chris has grown renegade into the industry-leading business in its' sector.

renegade's USP of providing a combined retail, student and club promotion service under one umbrella has built the company an enviable roster over two decades.  

Chris’ other activities have complemented his renegade experience, having DJ'd across three continents and delivered over 300 remixes and productions for some of the world’s biggest artists (as Manhattan Clique, with Grammy winner Philip Larsen).

His work in retail promotion has involved music partnerships with a wide variety of well-known hospitality brands, including boutique hotel operators Malmaison and Hotel Du Vin.

Having operated his own restaurant business, Chris has a unique understanding of the importance of music from a hospitality point of view and consults on music policy across the pub, hotel and casual dining sectors.

In a collaboration of his music and licenced industry experience, Chris devised the first-ever ‘band beer’ for the band elbow with Robinson’s Brewery, a concept then ‘borrowed’ by them for the Iron Maiden beer ‘Trooper’ which became the biggest-selling band beer of all time. renegade continue to develop new band-band projects in the drinks trade.

Chris founded renegade in 1999.

Mark Hoskin

General Manager

Mark joined renegade straight from Westminster University in 2018, where he studied Radio & Digital Production.  Whilst there, he was also Head of Music at Smoke Radio and Smoke Magazine.

Currently working with the Student Radio Association, Mark also has previous experience at Rinse FM, Soho Radio, DICE, and Vibe 107.6.

Mark looks after the Renegade DJ network and oversees all Renegade student promotional campaigns.

Natasha Nur

Campaign Manager

After graduating with a First Class Honours degree in Music at BIMM, Natasha quickly learnt her craft in the artist management sector,  working on the teams of several internationally renowned acts including Pixies and Agnes Obel, as well as taking on her own clients.

Previously Natasha gained experience working amongst the bustling live music scene of Manchester, promoting her own shows and working in production and artist liaison at festivals such as Parklife and Sound City. 

Alongside her campaign manager role at renegade, Natasha is passionate about managing the development of grassroots artists with the objective of improving gender equality in the music industry.

Oliver Bowley

Promotions Assistant

After graduating with a degree from Nottingham Trent University in 2020, Oliver began his career amongst Nottingham’s live music scene, helping to organise shows and events at one of the city’s most iconic venues.

Alongside his responsibilities as our newest member of the team at renegade, Olly is the frontman of an indie band with whom he has toured across Europe playing shows for the last three years.