How to pronounce “knep” in English

in the so-called "Graphics Group" with Andy Van Dam, and that was a really rich period in history, Scott Snibbe, who's in the audience somewhere? Where'd he go? There he is, inthe corner, was there, Brian Knep was there, two other artists doing, programming computers to do interesting art these days. That was also a time when I really got into open-sourcesoftware. In particular I learned the emacs editor, written by Richard Stallman himself,