September 5, 2008

Gerson Lehrman Group announces launch of Council Partners Program

Program establishes enterprise-level relationships with more than 200 leading professional service and business information firms

New York, NY—September 5, 2008—Gerson Lehrman Group, the world’s marketplace for expertise, today announced the launch of the Gerson Lehrman Group Council Partners program, a global online network that provides a significantly expanded range of expertise from leading professional service and business information firms. Anchor members of the Council Partners program include more than 200 leading law firms, premier niche consulting firms, and specialized market research firms, with the vast majority of them exclusive to Gerson Lehrman Group for expert network engagements.

Through Gerson Lehrman Group’s Internet-based platform, Council Partners obtain access to a broad new distribution channel to reach thousands of new types of potential clients more efficiently and at lower cost than ever before. In addition, Council Partners receive access to Gerson Lehrman Group’s proprietary database of more than 200,000 individual experts to better serve their own clients by expanding their capabilities across all specialties, functions, and geographies.

“Our work with Gerson Lehrman Group has been defined by a shared commitment to providing outstanding, customized insights to the most discriminating of clients,” said Orlan Johnson, a partner at Saul Ewing, a mid-Atlantic law firm with more than 250 attorneys in nine offices, serving national clients. “Partners in our firm had already worked with Gerson Lehrman Group to obtain new avenues for development. To accelerate these benefits, we decided to forge an enterprise-level relationship with Gerson Lehrman Group through their Council Partners program as part of our firm’s broader commitment to growth and change.”

“Gerson Lehrman Group’s consulting platform and research-intensive client base provide an ideal marketing partner, through which we can extend our leadership position and client base,” said Paul Semenza, Senior Vice President of DisplaySearch, a worldwide leader in display market research and consulting. “Gerson Lehrman Group’s Council Partner tools will enable our analysts to spend more time conveying insightful expertise to clients, and less time handling the logistics surrounding consulting engagements, from securing confidentiality agreements to setting up appropriate payment workflow.”

“Our firm is unique in the aerospace and defense industry,” said Richard Aboulafia, Vice President of Teal Group, a consulting firm with offices in Virginia, Ohio, and California. “Gerson Lehrman Group’s platform provides us with a distribution channel, payment platform, and partner in serving an important and demanding part of our client base.”

Gerson Lehrman Group clients benefit from efficient, on-demand access to Council Partners, using the same rules-based environment with which they already engage Gerson Lehrman Group’s more than 200,000 individual subject-matter experts. Professionals at Council Partner firms are available for in-depth projects, in-person meetings, and telephone consultations.

“Many top firms invest time and resources to market their services, diversify their client bases, and sharpen their insights,” said Dmitri Mehlhorn, Managing Director of Gerson Lehrman Group. “Our technology-enabled platform provides such firms with a streamlined opportunity to achieve all those goals with the greatest impact, while also growing revenue, rather than spending money.”

Further information about the Council Partners Program, including a list of Premium Partners, is available at www.glgroup.com/Council-Partners/Council-Partners.html.

About Gerson Lehrman Group

Gerson Lehrman Group provides technology and services to support a marketplace for expertise. Since 1998, its platform for consultation and collaboration has helped the world's leading financial services firms, consultancies, corporations, and nonprofits find, engage, and manage experts in a broad range of industries and disciplines. Gerson Lehrman Group's unparalleled network of the world's leading expert consultants, known as the Gerson Lehrman Group Councils, includes more than 250,000 subject-matter experts who educate and provide insight to decision makers through a wide range of consulting methods, including telephone consultations, expert surveys, and seminars.

Gerson Lehrman Group has invested in one of the world's most sophisticated infrastructures for expert recruiting and compliance. For more information about Gerson Lehrman Group, please visit www.glgroup.com.

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