Mark Young

Mark joined KNN Public Finance as a Managing Director in June 2014 and opened KNN’s new Los Angeles office for the firm.� Mr. Young brings over 30 years of experience serving municipalities and has worked on over $30 billion in short and long-term debt. Mr. Young’s experience includes serving both as financial advisor and investment banker, most recently as a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Western Region for Loop Capital Markets. Prior to Loop, he was a Principal at the financial advisory firm of Gardner, Underwood & Bacon LLC.� His clients have included the counties of Los Angeles, San Bernardino and San Diego, the cities of Los Angeles, San Diego, Long Beach, Manhattan Beach, Poway, Redondo Beach and Phoenix, San Diego and Los Angeles Unified School Districts, Long Beach Airport, the Port of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.� Mr. Young has a B.A. in Economics with departmental honors from the University of California, Berkeley.� Mark passed the MSRB’s pilot Municipal Advisor Representative Qualification Examination (Series 50).