GTT Communications, Inc. announced that the Board appointed Anthony M. Abate and Sherman Edmiston III to each of the Board and the Strategic Planning Committee, effective January 7, 2021. The Board designated Abate and Edmiston to each serve until his successor is duly appointed, or until his earlier death, resignation or removal. On January 7, 2021, the Company also appointed Scott D. Vogel as a non-voting observer to the Strategic Planning Committee. Abate has served as the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Echo360, Inc. since August 2007. He has also served as chairman of the board of directors of Southeastern Grocers since May 2018, a director for Tops Markets Corporation since November 2018, and a director for Denbury, Inc. since November 2020. Abate’s previous experience includes serving as a General Partner at Battery Ventures, where he led several mobile and network-based communications investments; as Chief Financial Officer of Grab Networks; as Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company, focusing on the technology, media and telecom sector; and as a director for Broadview Networks and Cbeyond. Edmiston has served as a Managing Member of HI CapM Advisors, a consulting firm providing strategic and financial advice to corporations, PE firms and hedge funds, since August 2016. He also currently serves as a director of Arch Coal, Inc., the second largest producer of thermal and metallurgical coal in the United States, Arko Corp., a leading independent convenience store operator, Key Energy Services, Inc., a leading provider of oilfield services such as well service rigs and fluid management services in the Permian Basin and California, and Mallinckrodt SpecGX, a leading developer and manufacturer of high-quality specialty generic drugs and bulk API products including opioids and acetaminophen. Edmiston has previously served as a director of Centric Brands, Inc., Monitronics International, Inc., Maremont Corporation and HCR ManorCare Inc. Vogel has been a managing member of Vogel Partners, LLC since July 2016. From 2002 through July 2016, he worked at Davidson Kempner Capital Management, L.L.C., where he was a Managing Director overseeing a team focused on investments in North American companies in financial distress. From 1999 to 2001, he was an analyst at MFP Investors LLC investing in special situations and turnaround opportunities. Prior to MFP Investors, he was an investment banker at Chase Securities. Vogel has served on numerous boards during his career and is currently a member of the boards of directors of Avaya Holdings Corp., Bonanza Creek Energy, Inc., Contura Energy Inc., CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. and several private companies.