Knovel
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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Publishing, Online publishing, and New media |
| Founded | Norwich, New York, United States (2000) |
| Headquarters | New York City, United States |
| Key people |
Chris Forbes, President and Chief Executive Officer |
| Employees | Circa 100 (2011) |
| Website | www.knovel.com |
Knovel is a private company headquartered in New York City. Knovel customers include more than 700 customers worldwide including 74 Fortune 500 companies[1] and more than 400 leading universities.[2]
Focused on the engineering community, Knovel offers an unmatched depth and breadth of validated engineering content including more than 3,500 leading reference works and databases from more than 90 leading technical publishers[3] and professional societies[4] including AIAA, AIChE and ASME.
Knovel was founded in 2000 , by Chris Forbes, Sasha Gurke and the late Bill Woishnis. Both Chris Forbes, president and CEO and Sasha Gurke, Senior Vice President, remain actively involved in the company. Knovel’s Board of Directors, led by Richard Harrington, Chairman and General Partner of Cue Ball Capital, is composed of luminaries from technology, publishing and investment industries. Knovel’s Board of Directors[5] includes:
- Richard Harrington, former CEO Thomson Reuters
- Ed Barry, former President of Oxford University Press
- Chris Forbes, President and CEO of Knovel
- Li Lu, founder of Himalaya Capital
- John R. Patrick, president of Attitude LLC
- Thomas Rest, executive with Credit Suiss’s Customized Fund Investment Group and
- Anthony Tjan, CEO and managing partner of Cue Ball Capital.
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Knovel is a web-based application integrating technical information with analytical and search tools to drive innovation and deliver answers engineers can trust. Knovel’s three key elements – validated content, optimized search, and data analysis tools – enable engineers to not only easily find relevant data, but also analyze, document and incorporate it into their everyday work.
Knovel offers 28 subject areas featuring guidance and best practice information on a wide range of topics including material selection and tolerances, environmental impacts, safety and compliance.
Knovel’s search functionality “understands” engineering language. Users can finds data hidden in tables, graphs, and equations, and they can execute numeric range and multi-variable searches. Knovel’s content includes more than 90,000 interactive tables, equation plotters, charts and graphs that can be manipulated and exported into other tools such as Excel or PTC’s Mathcad™.
