FREDERICK KNAPP
Founder & CEO
Frederick Knapp has delivered across every dimension of complex real estate: transactional, operational and developmental, at a scale that few in the industry have matched. His career spans some of the most consequential built environments in the world, from the predevelopment and opening of Hudson Yards to the master planning of New Songdo City, representing more than $49.5 billion in delivered projects across every asset class and economic cycle.
Experience Matters.
Frederick Knapp is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Knapp Capital Management. He founded KCM to deliver the next generation of large-scale mixed-use development, drawing on more than 35 years of transactional, operational and development experience across some of the most complex built environments ever delivered.
Prior to founding KCM, Knapp operationalized Hudson Yards Management Company, the entity responsible for opening and managing 12.8 million square feet of Hudson Yards, the largest private real estate development in United States history. He established campus-wide security, life safety and service standards at unprecedented scale and built three high-revenue service joint ventures across the campus.
Earlier in his career, Knapp served in senior roles at Related Management Company, where he restructured operations across 42,000 multifamily units and reduced corporate allocation costs by approximately 90%. He also oversaw asset management of GSK's Global Headquarters for 17 years and executed approximately 200 lease transactions and 8 million square feet of acquisitions and dispositions across his transactional career.
His development experience spans Hudson Yards ($13B, 12.8M SF), New Songdo City ($38B, 50M SF) and Time Warner Center ($2.3B, 2.8M SF), representing more than $49.5 billion in delivered projects.
Knapp is a graduate of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and a post-graduate alumnus of Yale School of Management. He is a former college and NBA basketball player.
