Will Knuff

Mr. William G.
Knuff is a Managing Partner at Knuff & Co. LLC.
He is also the Head of Research, Chief Compliance Officer, and a co-owner of Knuff & Company.
He has almost 30 years of experience in the financial industry, including asset management, investment banking, research, and private equity.
Prior to merging his business with Knuff & Company in February of 2019, he was the founder and Managing General Partner of Event Capital Partners LLC, and the Portfolio Manager of Event Value Fund, L.P – both of which he established in April 2011.
Prior to this, he worked in private equity at Tano Capital LLC, where he helped launch and manage the firm and its first dedicated India fund, and previously at Sutter Capital Management LLC and Sutter Holding Company as a Principal and Chairman/CFO, respectively.
While at Sutter, he also served on the board of Prandium, Inc. (former parent of national restaurant chains El Torito and Chi-Chi’s), working through its reorganization and eventual dissolution with specialists Alvarez & Marsal, Inc. Prior to Sutter, he worked in investment banking at Robertson Stephens, Inc., first in the FIG Group, then in the M&A Group, and finally in the Corporate Finance Group, serving clients in the biotechnology, consumer, financial services, industrial, and telecommunications sectors.
He received his undergraduate degree from The University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Cornell University.