Head Of Equity Trading
Office: 646-517-1310
bknapp@cormacteam.com
Brian F. Knapp joined Cornerstone Macro as the firm’s Head of Equity Trading in April 2014. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and a Minor in Mathematics. During Brian’s five years of service in the United States Field Artillery, U.S. Army, he earned his MBA from the University of Phoenix in 1998. After completing his military service in 1999, he joined Solomon Smith Barney’s Associate Training Program, which gave him broad exposure across all areas of Equities and Fixed Income. Brian was selected to join the firm’s Equity Listed Trading desk and in 2004 was promoted to Senior Equity Trader to co-manage the Energy pad. In 2006, he joined JP Morgan responsible for trading and capital commitment of domestic Energy and Utility related equities (including MLP’s, midstream, coal, and tankers). Brian left JPM in 2009 to join Susquehanna International Group’s (SIG) Equity Trading desk focusing on Energy and Industrial Super Cyclical U.S. Sectors. He was promoted to Head Trader in the summer of 2012 to manage seven senior traders, and responsible for overseeing all daily operations of the SIG trading desk.