Mark Ger­son, an entre­pre­neur, and phil­an­thropist is the co-founder and Chair­man of Unit­ed Hatza­lah, the crowd-sourced sys­tem of vol­un­teer first response that enables Israelis to be treat­ed with­in the moments sep­a­rat­ing life from death fol­low­ing any med­ical trau­ma. He is also the co-founder and Chair­man of African Mis­sion Health­care, which enables Chris­t­ian med­ical mis­sion­ar­ies to pro­vide clin­i­cal care, train­ing, and med­ical infra­struc­ture for peo­ple through­out Africa. A grad­u­ate of Williams Col­lege and Yale Law School, Mark is the author of books on intel­lec­tu­al his­to­ry and edu­ca­tion. His arti­cles and essays on sub­jects rang­ing from Frank Sina­tra to the bib­li­cal Jon­ah have been pub­lished in The New Repub­lic, Com­men­tary, The Wall Street Jour­nal, and USA Today. He hosts the pop­u­lar pod­cast The Rab­bi’s Hus­band and writes a week­ly Torah col­umn for Chris­t­ian Broad­cast­ing Net­work. Mark is mar­ried to Rab­bi Eri­ca Ger­son. They and their four chil­dren live in New York City.