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Andrew Sommer
Senior Vice President, Systems and Technology

Mr. Sommer is Senior Vice President, Systems and Technology at GCG. In addition to being the architect of GCG's technology-based solutions to settlement administration, his experience involves system design and integration at a variety of levels, including requirement definition, detailed design specification, and coding and implementation.

Mr. Sommer's experience encompasses legal, financial, telecommunications, personnel, manufacturing, and quality control applications. In sum, he has over 20 years of experience in developing state-of-the-art systems to deal with the needs of class action and bankruptcy administrations. This experience is unparalleled in our industry.

Among Mr. Sommer's many accomplishments is the creation of production software to interpret document images and to develop highly accurate data which can then be further changed and managed. Over the years he has been responsible for leading the development of GCG's CLASS software from its beginnings as a mainframe application, to its current implementations as a distributed system.

Mr. Sommer was part of the team responsible for collecting claim information from the Kuwaiti people for the United Nations' class action against Iraq following the Gulf War. Using imaging technology, he helped develop a collection system for close to 200,000 claims, amassing more than one and a half million images.

GCG's ability to administer complex, high-volume cases is attributed in part to Mr. Sommer's technical innovations.

A graduate of Queens College, Mr. Sommer also earned a certificate in Computer Technologies from New York University.