Gerson Lehrman Group
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| Type of business | Private company |
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| Founded | 1998 |
| Headquarters | New York City, United States |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Key people | Mark Gerson (Co-Founder and Chairman); Alexander Saint-Amand, (CEO); Thomas D. Lehrman (Co-Founder and Director) |
| Industry | Information Services |
| Services | Professional Learning; Knowledge Brokerage; Expert network |
| Slogan(s) | GLG Is Transforming The Way The World's Top Professionals Share Expertise And Learn |
Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) is an American expert network that operates a membership-based platform that provides independent ad-hoc consulting services to business professionals around the world. It was founded in 1998, backed by private equity firms Silver Lake Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners, and is headquartered in New York City.
GLG clients include institutional investors, professional services firms, corporations, and non-profit organizations. GLG experts include consultants, physicians, scientists, engineers, lawyers, senior current and former c-level executives, and former government members.
Gerson Lehrman Group was founded by Duke University and Yale Law School graduate Thomas Lehrman and fellow Yale Law School graduate Mark Gerson, who had worked at the hedge fund Tiger Management, that led to a generation of spinoffs (known as Tiger Cubs). Alexander Saint-Amand joined GLG shortly after its founding, and serves as its President and CEO.
GLG, initially funded by a friends and family round, was formed as a publishing house to produce industry guidebooks for institutional investors, a business they abandoned a year later when they could find no buyers for their product. The founders retooled their business model a year later to offer phone consultations and periodic roundtable discussions with experts. This business came to be called an expert network.
GLG’s first customers were investors, and most of their growth from 1999 to 2005 was within the investment community. In 2006, they began working with big strategy consultancies and with companies in life sciences, chemicals and industrials, and technology.
In 2006, GLG worked with U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to provide new primary data and analysis relevant for any other recovery plans in the rebuilding of Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita. It has been on the news that it has also done some other philanthropy work with smaller charities.
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