Penny Andrews

Penny Andrews

CEO and Co-Founder of Reno

Penny leads Reno's strategy, operations and customer experience, focusing on technology that makes renovation planning simpler, clearer and more human.

Penny Andrews is the CEO and Co-Founder of Reno.

Penny's career has centred around building, operating and scaling digital product and service businesses, working across strategy, sales, operations, delivery, product and customer experience.

Before Reno, Penny held senior leadership roles at digital agency Head and later Zone, helping scale both businesses through to acquisition. She later became Managing Director at blockchain startup Chainspace, which was acquired by Facebook in 2019, before co-founding People Make, the first company built together by Penny and Calum.

Across those businesses, Penny developed a reputation for combining strategic thinking with down to earth leadership and practical execution, helping teams navigate complexity while continuing to deliver meaningful outcomes for customers.

At Reno, Penny brings together her experience in product, operations and digital transformation with a long-standing interest in homes, renovation and thoughtful design. Her vision for Reno is particularly focused on simplifying complex processes, improving communication between homeowners and trades, and building technology that solves real-world problems in practical, human ways.

Penny lives in the Somerset countryside with her wife Lyndsay, their two daughters and their dog. Their most recent renovation project was a collaborative reworking of their mirror-image semi-detached homes alongside Penny's sister and her family, who live next door.

Latest articles

A Pinterest-style kitchen inspiration mood board

Industry insight

A Pinterest board isn't a renovation plan

Penny on the gap between a vision and a real plan, and the opportunity for whoever closes it.

Penny Andrews, CEO & Co-Founder of Reno

What Howdens paid for a business built on letting customers plan online

Industry insight

What Howdens paid for a business built on letting customers plan online

Penny on what £390 million says about how retailers should support customers through their whole journey, not just at the point of sale.

Penny Andrews, CEO & Co-Founder of Reno

A mix of items from different brands and retailers in a single room

Industry insight

Doesn't IKEA already do this?

Penny on why retailer room planners solve a small problem, and the bigger one they leave homeowners to solve alone.

Penny Andrews, CEO & Co-Founder of Reno

Choosing real paint brand colours in a Reno plan

Industry insight

“Just browsing” isn't as brand-agnostic as it looks

Penny on why early, exploratory planning is already a brand decision, and what that means for retailers.

Penny Andrews, CEO & Co-Founder of Reno

A customer's message about sharing their Reno plan with deVOL

Industry insight

People don't buy products. They buy confidence.

Penny on why unlinked products in a renovation plan usually don't mean indecision, and what that means for retailers.

Penny Andrews, CEO & Co-Founder of Reno

A tradesperson on site pointing at a Reno floor plan on a tablet

Industry insight

Why every renovator ends up being an accidental project manager

Penny on why renovation stress so often comes down to homeowners taking on a project management role nobody trained them for.

Penny Andrews, CEO & Co-Founder of Reno

Designing an en-suite bedroom in Reno

Industry insight

Why a bathroom renovation is never just about the bathroom

Penny on why the average renovation project spans more than 10 home retail categories, and what that means for the industry.

Penny Andrews, CEO & Co-Founder of Reno

Explaining the new millimetre-level tile alignment controls

Industry insight

Renovation planning is about reducing uncertainty, not just choosing cabinets

Penny on the unexpected feature requests that revealed what renovation planning is really for.

Penny Andrews, CEO & Co-Founder of Reno

Sketching a room plan with measurements before any professional is involved

Industry insight

The biggest part of a renovation happens before anyone in the industry sees it

Penny on the months of invisible planning homeowners do before an architect, designer or builder is ever involved.

Penny Andrews, CEO & Co-Founder of Reno

An inbox full of new item and feature request emails from customers

Industry insight

What our early customers taught us about how homeowners really renovate

Penny looks back at the feedback that overturned Reno's original room-by-room product roadmap.

Penny Andrews, CEO & Co-Founder of Reno

A renovation project spans more than one room in Reno

Industry insight

Why home retailers need to think beyond single rooms

Penny shares what Reno's renovation data reveals about how homeowners actually plan, and what it means for retailers.

Penny Andrews, CEO & Co-Founder of Reno

BUILD Design and Build Awards 2026 winner graphic

Product update

Reno wins Best Home Renovation Planning System at the 2026 BUILD Design & Build Awards

Penny shares the news of Reno's second consecutive BUILD Design & Build Awards win and what it means for the team.

Penny Andrews, CEO & Co-Founder of Reno

Renovation planning software project view

Product comparison

How showrooms can get better leads with renovation planning software

Penny explains how kitchen, bathroom and joinery showrooms can use renovation planning software to capture better qualified leads.

Penny Andrews, CEO & Co-Founder of Reno

Reno and Rehome partnership helping customers plan ex-display kitchens

Product update

Reno partners with Rehome to help customers plan ex-display kitchens with more confidence

Penny shares the story behind Reno's Rehome partnership and how it helps customers test whether an ex-display kitchen could work in their home before they buy.

Penny Andrews, CEO & Co-Founder of Reno

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