Mark Gerson

Mark Gerson is an American investor, businessman, and philanthropist. He co-founded the Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG)[1] and Thuzio. Gerson is also involved in philanthropic organizations African Mission Healthcare Foundation and United Hatzalah.

For the author, see Mark David Gerson.

Gerson received a BA from Williams College and a JD from Yale Law School.[2] He grew up in Short Hills, New Jersey and attended Milburn High School.

Business

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. GLG is a knowledge brokerage and primary research firm with a stated membership-based platform of more than 600,000 independent consultants.[3]

Gerson also co-founded Thuzio, a professional booking marketplace, with former NFL player Tiki Barber,[4] and Create, a venture studio.[5]

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.[6]

Gerson helped found the Tel Aviv Angel Group which invested in early stage Israeli startups and later on Maverick Ventures Israel, a venture capital fund composed of private investors that invests in early growth Israeli startups. Gerson serves on the fund’s board of advisors .

Philanthropy

Gerson is the co-founder and chairman of United Hatzalah, a network of volunteer medics in Israel.[7]

Gerson co-founded African Mission Healthcare Foundation with Dr. Jon Fielder in 2010.[8] The Foundation seeks to improve access to medical care in Africa.[9] AMHF supports the work of Christian medical missionaries serving in Africa in three areas: clinical care, training and infrastructure.[10]

AMHF has forged partnerships with Christian Broadcasting Network[11] and Samaritan's Purse[12]

As part of AMHF, Gerson helped create the Gerson L'Chaim Prize[13] in August 2016.[14]

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.[15] The L'Chaim Prize is a $500,000 grant aimed to award medical missionaries for their service and help them fund their mission.[15] 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.[16] The prize's name, L'Chaim, means "to life" in Hebrew.[15]

Recipients
Year Applicants Recipient Nationality Country of Service Intended Use
2016 26 Jason Fader, MD American Burundi (Kibuye Hope Hospital) Expand hospital and laboratories, purchase orthopedic equipment[17]
2017 24 Russel E. White, MD American Kenya (Tenwek Hospital) Train cardiac surgeons, implement ultrasound, purchase antibiotics[16]
2018 Rick Sacra, MD American Liberia (ELWA Hospital) Train Liberian Family Medicine Physicians, install solar capacity, establish ICUs[18]
2019 Tom Catena, MD American Sudan (Mother of Mercy Hospital) to strengthen and expand the Gidel Mother of Mercy Hospital [19]

Media

On Gerson's podcast The Rabbi's Husband with Mark Gerson he interviews a thinker with religious, political or theological perspectives regarding a passage from the Torah. Guests have included Israeli author Yossi Klein Halevi, speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz and Bishop Robert Stearns.[20] He also hosts a weekly Bible study with Eagles Wings, an international Christian organization supporting Israel initiatives.[21]

He is the author of the forthcoming book The Telling: How Judaism's Essential Book Reveals the Meaning of Life (St. Martins Publishing Group).[22]

Politics

Gerson is the author of the books 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 the 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.[23]

References
  1. "Who We Are". GLG. Retrieved June 28, 2020.
  2. "Mark Gerson". Militarist Monitor. October 21, 2013. Retrieved June 28, 2020.
  3. https://glg.it/overview/
  4. "Thuzio | Julius | Thuzio Executive Club". www.thuzio.com. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
  5. https://madebycreate.com/about. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. "Voray | crunchbase". www.crunchbase.com. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
  7. https://israelrescue.org/blog/faq/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. "From Williams to Africa". williams.edu. 2016-11-28.
  9. "Modern Missionaries". philanthropyroundtable.org. 2018.
  10. "Providing much needed care for Mothers and Children". africanmissionhealthcare.org. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
  11. "$500,000 Medical Prize Unites Christian, Jewish Faiths". cbn.com. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
  12. "WORLD MEDICAL MISSION - ON CALL" (PDF). 2018. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  13. "Allies in good works - WORLD". world.wng.org. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
  14. https://medium.com/@AfricaMHF/lchaim-adc560b77252#.axl21zpa9
  15. Donald G. McNeil Jr. (October 27, 2017). "Jewish Philanthropists Create a Prize for Christian Missionaries". New York Times. Retrieved June 28, 2020.
  16. Lipman, Steve (2018-02-09). "'Doing God's Work' In Rural Africa". ProQuest 2002969522. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  17. "The Only Surgeon For Millions of People Wins First Annual Gerson L'Chaim Prize". PRWeb. Retrieved 2018-12-06.
  18. "Gerson LChaim Prize". www.amhf.us. Retrieved 2019-01-05.
  19. "Heroic American Surgeon Dr. Tom Catena Earns Top Medical Missionary Award for Saving Lives in Africa's Forgotten War Zone". prnewswire.com. 2020-01-28.
  20. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-rabbis-husband/id1510424100/
  21. https://eagleswings.org/pesachpt1
  22. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250624246
  23. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/28/the-pro-freedom-republicans-are-coming-131-sign-gay-marriage-brief.html
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