Jerry Greenfield, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jerry Greenfield

American businessman

Date of Birth: 14-Mar-1951

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Profession: entrepreneur

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Jerry Greenfield (born March 14, 1951) is an American businessman and philanthropist.
He is a co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings, Inc. Greenfield grew up on Long Island.
He attended Oberlin College, where he followed a pre-med curriculum before graduating in 1973.
He applied unsuccessfully for medical school before deciding to go into business with Ben Cohen, a childhood friend. After taking a course in ice-cream making from Penn State, Greenfield and Cohen opened their first ice cream store in downtown Burlington, Vermont.
The company, which sold to the British-Dutch corporation Unilever in 2000, has since opened almost 200 franchised shops and reports earnings of $237 million annually.