Mark Gerson

Mark Gerson is an American investor and businessman. He is the co-founder and chairman of the Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG), a knowledge brokerage and primary research firm that operates a membership-based platform of more than 375,000 independent consultants. He is the co-founder of the professional booking marketplace, Thuzio. Gerson is also involved in philanthropic organizations African Mission Healthcare Foundation and the United Hatzalah.

Gerson graduated with a BA from Williams College and a JD from Yale Law School. He grew up in Short Hills, New Jersey and attended Milburn High School.

Mark Gerson and fellow Yale Law School graduate Thomas Lehrman founded the Gerson Lehrman Group in 1998. Gerson Lehrman group, otherwise known as GLG, is a peer to peer business learning company.

Gerson also co-founded Thuzio with former NFL player Tiki Barber. Thuzio has two products,

Gerson co-founded Voray, alongside Shopkeep co-founder David Olk and Prudence Holdings CIO Gavin Myers. Gerson serves as the co-chairman of Voray alongside Myers, while Olk runs the day to day operations.

Gerson is the Co-founder and Chairman of the African Mission Healthcare Foundation and United Hatzalah. As part of AMHF, Gerson helped create the Gerson L'Chaim Prize in August of 2016—a $500,000 annual grant to the outstanding Christian medical missionary serving in Africa.

Gerson is also the co-founder and Chairman of United Hatzalah, a distributed network volunteer first responders. They operate throughout Israel and in Jersey City.

Gerson is the author of the books The Neoconservative Vision: From the Cold War to the Culture Wars () and In the Classroom: Dispatches from an Inner-City School that Works (), and the editor of The Essential Neoconservative Reader ().

He is active politically, with most support going to Republican candidates. In 2015, Gerson joined other Republicans in signing an amicus curiae brief supporting a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, which was submitted to the Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges.

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