Carl Sottosanti — Executive VP, General Counsel & Secretary at Penn National Gaming

Mr. Carl Sottosanti has been General Counsel of Penn National Gaming, Inc. since February, 2014 and also has been its Secretary since November 2014. Mr. Sottosanti serves as Executive Vice President at Penn National Gaming, Inc. Mr. Sottosanti served as a Senior Vice President at Penn National Gaming, Inc. since February, 2014. Mr. Sottosanti has over 25 years of legal and business experience. Since 2003, Mr. Sottosanti has served as Deputy General Counsel and Vice President of Legal & Business Affairs at Penn National where he had significant responsibility for development opportunities, mergers and acquisitions, commercial transactions, corporate governance matters and labor and employment matters. Prior to joining Penn National, Mr. Sottosanti served for five years as General Counsel at publicly traded Sanchez Computer Associates, Inc. and served as its Secretary. At Sanchez, he had oversight of all legal matters, managed in-house and outside counsel, oversaw Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and compliance issues and handled intellectual property matters. He served as Assistant General Counsel of Salient 3 Communications, Inc., a diversified, publicly-traded telecommunications holding company, from 1994 to 1998. He began his legal career in 1989 serving for five years as an associate with the Philadelphia law firm Schnader Harrison, with a practice concentrated in employment and labor law and commercial litigation. Mr. Sottosanti graduated magna cum laude in 1986 from Villanova University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and in 1989 he received his J.D. from Villanova University School of Law, where he was an Editor on the Law Review and graduated cum laude.