Trey Knapp CPA

Trey Knapp has worked for the Sewell Automotive Companies for fourteen years and currently serves as Vice President - Finance and Accounting. Trey joined Sewell in 2009, and prior to that, worked at Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP (DHG), focusing on dealership audit, taxation, and consulting, for ten years. At Sewell, Trey oversees both the consolidated accounting and the corporate FP&A functions. As a part of these responsibilities, Trey manages the financial statement preparation process, insurance procurement and claims processing, filing of state and federal taxes, financial statement audits, budgeting and forecasting, acquisitions, family office matters, and consolidated treasury functions. A significant portion of Trey's time is invested in bridging dealership operations with financial reporting, in a way that builds trusting relationships and partnerships between these two critically important teams. To that extent, Trey also teaches accounting courses for Sewell's non-accounting managers. In 2019, Trey temporarily put aside his accounting and finance responsibilities, and served a four-month rotation as Pre-owned Sales Manager at Sewell Lexus Dallas. 

Trey is passionate about learning, mentoring, operational excellence, and most of all, automobiles. Trey is an active member of the Dallas chapter of Financial Executives International (FEI) and serves on the board of directors for the Texas Association of Blind Athletes, First United Methodist Church of Colleyville, and the Carroll Education Foundation. In 2022, Trey was highlighted by both the FEI Dallas Member Spotlight and the DHG Alumni Spotlight, and was also invited to guest teach a Masters level Financial Analytics course at his alma mater, the University of Texas at Arlington. In 2021, Trey was awarded CFO of the Year by the Dallas Business Journal, which he deems the pinnacle honor of his career thus far. 

Trey, his wife Amy, and their son Elijah, live in Southlake, Texas. The Knapp family recently welcomed Oskar, a Polish exchange student high school junior, to live in their home to attend Carroll Senior High School for the 2023-2024 school year. Trey loves cooking, especially grilling and baking. His family enjoys taking road trips to small Texas towns to find hidden-gem, family-owned restaurants and Texas historical sites.