Mark Gerson
American businessman
Mark Gerson is an American investor, businessman, and philanthropist. He co-founded numerous businesses including the Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG), Thuzio and 3i Members.2
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About
Gerson is also involved in several philanthropic organizations having co-founded African Mission Healthcare Foundation and United Hatzalah.
Gerson grew up in the Short Hills neighborhood of Millburn, New Jersey and attended Millburn High School. Gerson received a BA from Williams College and a JD from Yale Law School.
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Companies
- Gerson Lehrman GroupFounder6
Early life and education
Career
Occupation: missionary.5
- Date not recordedFounded Gerson Lehrman Group4
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. GLG is a knowledge brokerage and primary research firm with a stated membership-based platform of more than 600,000 independent consultants.
Gerson also co-founded Thuzio, a professional booking marketplace, with former NFL player Tiki Barber, and Create, a venture studio.
Most recently, Gerson co-founded 3i Members, a selective network of private investors who share curated investment opportunities that come from the membership, do collective diligence and are in community with each other through several hundred events a year and a variety of other channels.
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Philanthropy
Gerson is the co-founder and chairman of United Hatzalah, a network of over 8000 volunteer medics in Israel. United Hatzalah's volunteers come from every segment of Israeli society-- Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Druze, and people who espouse no faith. United Hatzalah is committed to treating everyone regardless of race, religion, national origin, or ethnicity.
Gerson also co-founded African Mission Healthcare Foundation with Dr. Jon Fielder in 2010. The Foundation seeks to improve access to medical care in Africa. AMHF supports the work of Christian medical missionaries serving in Africa in three areas: clinical care, training and infrastructure.
AMHF has forged partnerships with Christian Broadcasting Network and Samaritan's Purse
As part of AMHF, Gerson helped create the Gerson L'Chaim Prize in August 2016.
In September 2021 Gerson donated US$18 million to Christian medical missions in Africa.
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L'Chaim Prize for Outstanding Medical Missionary Service
The L'Chaim Prize for Outstanding Medical Missionary Service was founded by Gerson and his wife Erica Gerson. The L'Chaim Prize is a $500,000 grant aimed to award medical missionaries for their service and help them fund their mission. Due to the rise in independent churches, Gerson believed that there was a shortage of medical missionaries and believed this prize would help the field. The prize's name, L'Chaim, means "to life" in Hebrew.
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Politics
Gerson authored several other books including The Neoconservative Vision: From the Cold War to the Culture Wars (ISBN 1568330545) and In the Classroom: Dispatches from an Inner-City School that Works (ISBN 0684827565), and served as editor of The Essential Neoconservative Reader (ISBN 0201479680).
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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