Gerry White was a wealthy English born businessman and self-made millionaire.

The son of Gerard and Martha White, Gerry started life as butcher and established Hurstwood Meats in Birkenhead

Birkenhead

Birkenhead is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside, England. It is on the Wirral Peninsula, along the west bank of the River Mersey, opposite the city of Liverpool...

 on the Wirral. He later established Reddington Finance Group. He once owned Cammell Laird

Cammell Laird

Cammell Laird, one of the most famous names in British shipbuilding during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, came about following the merger of Laird, Son & Co. of Birkenhead and Johnson Cammell & Co. of Sheffield at the turn of the twentieth century.- Founding of the business :The Company...

 shipyard in Birkenhead; he purchased it for £10m and sold it for £100m in 2007.

In 1999, he led a consortium to purchase Everton F.C. He was chairman of Wirral Chamber of Commerce group.

He died age 64 in September 2008.