Alan McKnight is an Executive Vice President and serves as the Chief Investment Officer for Regions Asset Management. In this role, he is responsible for overall investment strategy, portfolio and risk management, and portfolio construction for approximately $75BN in assets under management and $150BN in assets under advisement. In addition, he is chairman of the Investment Working Group and a member of the Asset Liability Committee. He also serves as the chief spokesperson on portfolio strategy, asset allocation and overall markets for the Bank with groups such as CNBC, Bloomberg, FOX Business, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CNN Money and Thomson Reuters.

Prior to joining Regions in 2015, McKnight was a managing director and Head of Institutional Investments for Truist. He also previously served as the Chief Investment Officer for SunTrust Institutional Investment Advisors, as well as a portfolio manager with Equitable Asset Management and Morgan Stanley Asset Management.

McKnight has a bachelor’s degree in economics from Washington and Lee University and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Texas at Austin. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst Designation and is a member of the CFA Institute. He formerly served on the Boards of the Alliance Theatre, the Central Outreach and Advocacy Center, Cherokee Garden Library, The New Normal Society (Autism Awareness) and the Investment Committee for the Woodruff Arts Center.