Richard “Rick” D. Calder, Jr., a futurist with heaps of technical expertise, loves to spend a lot of time listening to the other CIOs in the industry. This he says gets him acquainted with the pain points in the market space and opens up an opportunity to respond with appropriate solutions. GTT President and CEO, Rick uses the same zeal and passion to drive GTT Communications, Inc. (GTT) and deliver cloud networking solutions to enterprise, government and carrier customers in over 100 countries worldwide.

An overwhelming majority of the industry leaders are trying to move their applications outside the four walls of the office to a cloud environment. “This is putting tremendous pressure on CIOs,” affirms Rick. “What CIOs need is help in understanding how to deploy a cloud strategy for their company and how to fully exploit the power of the cloud. This is where we thrive and this is our forte,” he adds. With over 15 years of experience in the communications space, GTT provides world class cloud networking services, rapid service implementation and global 24/7 end-to-end network monitoring and support. The company offers customers innovative connectivity solutions by utilizing their own network assets that link over 200 Points of Presence across North America, Europe and Asia–and extending them through 2000 partners worldwide. GTT’s Network as a Service proposition delivers flexible, reliable and scalable network infrastructure, for public, private and hybrid cloud networking.

“We simplify network deployment by removing the complexity of multi-vendor solutions while offering the cost efficiencies of a single partner,” reveals Rick. The company operates a global tier-1 IP network that connects clients anywhere in the world.