October 20, 2006

Gerson Lehrman Group Introduces GLG Research Management Platform

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Gerson Lehrman Group Introduces GLG Research Management Platform Web-Based Application Offers Clients Expanded Search Capabilities, Real-Time Research Management Tools, and Oversight Controls That Facilitate Compliance

New York, NY, October 20, 2006 Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) today announced the launch of the GLG Research Management Platform (RMP) (http://www.glgroup.com/researchplatform.html), a web-based application that allows clients to efficiently manage their primary research and proprietary expert knowledge networks and to facilitate compliance oversight over their primary research activities.

RMP allows client-researchers to expedite and improve the results of their primary research projects and enables client-managers and compliance professionals to engage in real-time oversight of that research. As a result, RMP users increase the speed, effectiveness, and efficiency of their research.

GLG is a global leader in providing systems to manage expert consulting. Its services and web-based tools help the world's leading financial services firms, consultancies, corporations and nonprofits find, engage, build, and manage proprietary knowledge networks. These networks are drawn from the GLG Councils, industry-focused groups comprised of consultants, physicians, scientists, engineers, attorneys, market researchers and other professionals from around the world. With over 150,000 subject-matter experts, the GLG Councils deepen clients understanding of critical issues through a wide range of educational solutions, including telephone consultations, expert surveys and seminars.

"We are excited that our investments in technology continue to help our clients," said Alexander Saint-Amand, GLGs Chief Executive Officer. RMP is the first innovation in the primary research industry to provide clients with the tools they need to manage research projects in real time while allowing those clients managers and compliance professionals to control the primary research process at their firms."

For researchers using the new web-based application, RMP delivers enhanced search capabilities and research management tools to help clients more efficiently target custom research projects with GLG Council Members. These enhancements enable:

• Search and Discovery Clients can search for and qualify expert consultants in the GLG Councils by keyword, job profile, biography, and geography.
• Collaboration Clients can share feedback and notes about specific contacts, populations, projects, and events with colleagues and groups.
• Project Initiation Clients can request a research project with any member of their custom knowledge network directly from the system.
• Project Management Clients can view the status of research projects in real time.
• Organization Clients can organize consultations, surveys, contacts, events, and notes using customized tags and themes specific to their firms naming conventions and workflows.

For managers and compliance professionals, RMP enhances their ability to monitor, manage and control their firms primary research. The oversight tools offered through RMP allow clients to:

• Monitor consulting activity conducted through GLG, either across the whole firm or for specific users, in real time, even before projects occur;
• Set custom GLG workflow rules, for all or specific users, to enable a review of any proposed expert, before the user receives information on the expert;
• Block, put on hold, and add customized reminder notes to specific GLG consulting projects or consultants;
• List specific public company tickers to identify companies whose employees cannot consult through GLG with the clients users; and
• Review all historical GLG research projects by any user within their firms, along with all project details, including Council Members proposed and utilized.

In developing RMP, GLG leveraged its 75-person engineering department, with expertise derived from over seven years of experience in technical design and managing knowledge networks, and incorporated best practices gleaned from serving over 500 clients. GLG also incorporated the latest innovations in security, using 128-bit Verisign SSL Certification and 1024-bit RSA Public Keys, to help ensure that all data is secure, private, and always available.

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 200,000 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.

Gerson Lehrman Group Contact:
Christopher M. Stella
212-880-6517

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