Gerber grew up in the Hewlett, New York and graduated in 1980 from Hewlett High School on Long Island. He attended the University of Arizona and graduated with a BA in marketing.
Gerber's Gerber Group opened its first venue, the bar The Whiskey in the Paramount Hotel in New York City, in 1991. In 2013, he partnered with George Clooney to launch Casamigos Tequila. In June 2017, it was sold to Diageo for $700 million, with an additional $300 million possible depending on the company's performance over the next ten years.
Gerber married model Cindy Crawford on May 29, 1998. They have two children, son Presley Walker (born July 2, 1999) and daughter Kaia Jordan (born September 3, 2001), both of whom started a modeling career while growing up.
