He is a graduate of Harvard Business School, (MBA) and Stanford University (BA Economics, cum laude).

During the past fifteen years, Mr. Knoke has been a principal or advisor to innumerable deals spanning scores of industries. He has been a key architect for one of the top five international banks, as it expanded in the lucrative US market. He operated behind-the-scenes on the acquisition of America's largest printer manufacturer. He was a key advisor to the Pacific Telesis into value-added communications. Mr. Knoke was also the strategist behind a California computer company rising to be rated by The Wall Street Journal as among the top ten stock-market performers of all American companies, all exchanges.

His intimate exposure to a variety of industries - computers, electronics, medical technology, defense, aerospace, consumer-products, banking and insurance - has given him a rare insider's look on how our world will be reorganized over the next two decades - and how organizations, governments and individuals must change.

Mr. Knoke is a sought-after keynote speaker at national conventions and international conferences, ranging from banking, insurance and telecommunications to senior members of government.

Mr. Knoke is also the author of the international bestseller "Bold New World: The Essential Road Map to the Twenty-First Century", translated into German, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, Dutch, Hungarian, Turkish, with other languages pending. Mr. Knoke has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Forbes, Success, and other publications, and has appeared on over 50 television and radio interviews in the United States, Canada and Western Europe. After reading Mr. Knoke's book, President Clinton referred to "the bold new world of the 21st century" in the opening to his 1997 State of the Union address.