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William Knoke is founder and President of the Harvard Capital Group, specializing in raising venture capital, private placements, mergers and acquisitions and preparing companies for initial public offerings. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School, (MBA) and Stanford University (BA Economics, cum laude). Knoke is also the author of "Bold New World: The Essential Road Map to the Twenty-First Century" and "The Tipping Point".

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.

Knoke's new book,  The Tipping Point, is conceived to be written for everyday readers, and explains, in simple terms, why an energy revolution is upon us.  The Tipping Point takes the controversial position that the world is not on the verge of a fossil fuel shortage.  Historically, as prices have risen, new technologies and reserves are found, even when all hope is lost that stocks will run out.  Despite the power of OPEC in manipulating prices, the underlying costs of extracting fuels remain remarkably cheap compared to their usefulness.  Left unchecked, the increased use of coal and petroleum seems inevitable, resulting in an increasingly severe environmental problems. To Knoke, the solution is in technology.  His seminal work provides a tour de force showing how technology is consistently lowering the costs of alternate sources of energy.  Ultimately, it is these incremental technological advances that will win the global war against fossil fuels, and allow us to remove manmade carbon dioxide from being a cause for global warming.