Biography

Married with two sons and two daughters, Andy makes his home in the city of Weston, in Broward County, Florida. He is active in community through involvement in Leadership Broward, and volunteers as a judge for the local high school debate team. 

Andy currently serves as a Senior Vice President and Shareholder of Repario (www.repariodata.com), an end-to-end eDiscovery provider. He leads the digital forensics business unit, which performs a wide range of investigations and collections of electronically stored information.

Andy joined Repario after serving for 20 years as founder and CEO of ELIJAH, which specialized in providing digital forensic and electronic discovery solutions for organizations with litigation and investigative needs. Andy also is an owner of Elijah Information Technology LLC, which provides information technology solutions for small and mid-sized organizations. Andy named ELIJAH after his eldest son, in part as a reminder of why he needs to go to work and why he needs to come home. 

Prior to ELIJAH, Andy was a partner with an international law firm, practicing in commercial litigation and technology law. He also served as General Counsel of the International Save the Children Alliance in Geneva, Switzerland, and was a judicial clerk for the Honorable Harlington Wood Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Andy has been recognized as Information Systems Forensic Expert of the Year (USA) by the AI Legal Awards, Leading Data Security Advisor of the Year (USA) by Lawyer International,  and as Legal Technology Gamechanger of the Year (USA) by the ACQ5 Law Awards. He also received the Outstanding Recent Alumni Award for Public Service from the University of Illinois College of Law.

Andy graduated as class valedictorian from the University of Illinois College of Law, Summa Cum Laude, where he also was Editor-in-Chief of the University of Illinois Law Review. He earned his bachelor’s degree, Magna Cum Laude, from Illinois State University.