Lou Knoop

Mr. Lou Knoop is a Director-Audit & Compliance at Cat Trail Capital LLC.
Previously he served as the Director of Partnership Administration and Accounting of PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP.
With a career spanning over 35 years, he has extensive experience in controllership, accounting, and auditing functions.
At the time of its merger with Price Waterhouse & Co., he held the position of Deputy National Controller at Coopers & Lybrand, LLP.
He assumed responsibility for the successful consolidation and integration of the firms’ controllership functions.
After the merger, he assumed the position of Director of Partnership Administration and Accounting and consolidated the reengineering of these functions.
In this capacity, he directed PWC’s computerization project to develop a new comprehensive partner payroll and accounting system replacing the legacy firms’ systems.
Mr. Knoop served as a National Auditing Manager at Main Hurdman & Co. where he developed an in-house audit manual and co-authored the firm’s publication on how to report on a company’s system of internal control.
During his tenure at Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., he managed the audits of both multi-national and privately held companies and advised clients on accounting, tax and internal control matters.
Mr. Knoop received a BS degree in Accounting with a minor in Economics from St. John’s University and is a Certified Public Accountant in the state of New York.