# Titus Gebel **Titus Gebel** (born 1967) is a German entrepreneur and the author of *Free Private Cities* (2018), which proposes that a private company should provide government as a paid service under contract with each resident. See [[Free Private Cities]]. He co-founded the raw-materials company Deutsche Rohstoff AG in 2006 and ran it until 2014. He put the idea into practice in Honduras, serving as chief legal officer of Honduras Próspera Inc., the operator of [[Próspera]], from 2017 to 2019. He now runs Tipolis, a Singapore-based company that develops such cities, and sits on the board of the Free Cities Foundation, a U.S.-registered nonprofit that promotes them. The foundation held its 2026 conference in Próspera. ## Why he's on the map Gebel supplied the contract model behind Próspera and runs the movement's main international meeting place. He is the European end of a network otherwise centered on Silicon Valley. > [!note] Stub > This is a short entry that hasn't been fully written yet. ## See Also - [[Free Private Cities]] - [[Próspera]] - [[Network State Experiments Roster]]