GLG INC.

GLG Inc., which stands for Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc., is consulting network that provdes independent consulting services to professionals. The company was established in 1998 by Thomas Lehrman and Mark Gerson, originally funded by friends and family and established first as a publishing house to produce guidebooks for investors. Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. would then change their business model to become consultants and become what is called as an expert network. Its first customers as a consulting business were investors, and the company would largely stay within the investing industry until 2005, when the company began working with bigger companies and other firms in life sciences, industrials, technology, and chemical sectors. Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. has grown from its inception to now have a network of offices located around the world including Dubai, Paris, Shaing, Beijing, Austin, Boston, Illinois, Seould, Tokyo, Sydney, Munich, Hong Kong, and others. Both of the two original founders are still with the company with Thomas D. Lehrman acting as its director and Mark L. Gerson acting as the company’s Chairman of the Board. Gerson Lehrman Group is currently headed by CEO Alexander Saint-Amand and has grown to provide a variety of services to its clients including professional services, corporations, and charities, among others. The company currently has over 1,000 employees and is the “world’s largest membership network for one-on-one professional learning, comprising more than 400,000 thought leaders and practitioners, including business leaders, scientists, academics, former public sector leaders and the foremost subject matter specialists.” Gerson Lehrman Group is a member of the Man Group, one of the world’s largest independent alternative investment managers and a leader in liquid, high-alpha investment strategies. Throughout the years, especially in recent years as the use of alternative research has increased, various companies such as Credit Suisse and Amba Research have formed partnerships with Gerson Lehrman Group.