Alex Grau

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Mr. Alex Grau serves as Board Member at GTT Communications. He is a Managing Director at Hudson Advisors L.P., an investment adviser to Lone Star Funds, where he is responsible for managing private equity investments in North America and Latin America. Over the past 21 years, Mr. Grau has had responsibility for investments spanning twenty different industries. He currently serves as Chairman of two companies, Rise Broadband, the largest privately-held fixed wireless internet service provider in the United States and Atvos, the second largest sugarcane ethanol producer in Brazil. He previously has held board seats at eleven other companies, serving on various board committees, including the audit, compensation and capital committees and has served as interim executive of various privately-held companies. Prior to joining Hudson Advisors, L.P. in 2017, he held a similar role for ten years at American Capital, Ltd., managing control and non-control equity and debt investments through various stages of the investment lifecycle from distress to turnaround to growth. Mr. Grau has also held strategy consulting roles with McKinsey & Company, focusing on recovery and transformation services and Strategic Pricing Group (acquired by Deloitte), focusing on value-based marketing and pricing strategy. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Joseph Wharton Fellow, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Foreign Service from the Walsh School at Georgetown University. Mr. Grau also holds an inactive Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor designation.