Finance & strategy

Finance, with
perspective.

I’m Frank Musella, an FP&A Director at Komline. My background spans manufacturing, consumer banking, and real estate investment banking.

Princeton University · Class of 2014 · University of Virginia Darden School of Business · Class of 2021

Finance · Markets · Writing

01 / About

A broader
perspective.

My career has taken me from banking and capital markets to the operating realities of a manufacturing business.

Today, I’m an FP&A Director at Komline. Previously, I spent five years at Capital One and worked in real estate investment banking at Morgan Stanley. I graduated from Princeton University in 2014 with a bachelor’s in economics and UVA’s Darden School of Business in 2021.

02 / Experience

Across industries. Across perspectives.

Current

Komline

Director, FP&A

Financial planning and analysis in manufacturing.

Previously

Capital One

Consumer banking

Five years at Capital One, including Consumer Bank Marketing and digital channels.

Previously

Morgan Stanley

Real estate investment banking

A foundation in real estate and capital markets.

03 / Selected writing

Markets, ideas & a little Shakespeare.

Academic research on financial markets, alongside an entirely different kind of writing.

Senior thesis · Princeton

High-frequency trading & market quality

How three European regulatory approaches affect market quality.

Read the thesis  ↗

Junior paper · 2013

Price limits & exchange volatility

An examination of price limits as a way to control volatility on exchanges.

Read the paper  ↗

Creative writing

Breaking Bard

Breaking Bad reimagined as a five-act Shakespearean play. Acts I and II are available.

Read the play  ↗

Beyond the desk

Room for curiosity.

I’ve climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, run half marathons, and tried my hand at Shakespearean adaptation. There’s always something new to explore.

A mountain summit at sunrise