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Mr. Freda, Director of GCG's Business Reorganization Services, is responsible for supervising the administration of Chapter 11 cases. Before joining GCG, Mr. Freda served as a Deputy Clerk of the United States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York, where he was designated as the Court's contact for Claims Agents appointed to large Chapter 11 cases. He was a senior member of the electronic case filing training staff, which offered classes to bankruptcy attorneys, members of judges' staff, paralegals and others on electronic docketing, and assisted in the formulation of the Court's quality control guidelines. Mr. Freda also supervised the Court's dockets, generated notices to creditors, and processed legal documents.
Earlier in his career, he was employed by the United States Department of Justice as a senior bankruptcy analyst at the Office of the United States Trustee for the Southern District of New York, where he assisted in the administration of bankruptcy cases.
Mr. Freda is a graduate of St. Francis College, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree. He received a certificate of recognition from Chief Bankruptcy Judge Stuart M. Bernstein and Cecelia G. Morris, Clerk of Court in May 2000 for having created and pioneered a training program on electronic case filing for attorneys who practice in the Southern District of New York.