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GDT

Global IT services for platform modernization

Vice President Field Chief Technology Officer

Full-TimePosted on 10/21/2026
No salary listed
Expert
Minnesota, USA
Remote
Solution EngineeringPre-Sales Solution Engineering
Company Does Not Provide H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 15 years of experience in telecommunications, service-provider infrastructure, network and systems architecture, cloud and edge infrastructure, technology strategy, consulting, professional services, or related leadership roles, including significant customer-facing and executive advisory experience.
  • Deep expertise in telecommunications, service-provider, carrier-grade, or other mission-critical infrastructure environments spanning network, systems, cloud, edge, data center, and operations architecture.
  • Advanced knowledge of IP routing and transport, including Border Gateway Protocol, Open Shortest Path First, Intermediate System to Intermediate System, Multiprotocol Label Switching, Ethernet VPN/Virtual Extensible LAN, segment routing, IPv6 segment routing, software-defined networking, software-defined wide area networking, quality of service, traffic engineering, and network automation.
  • Practical understanding of 4G/5G, telecom cloud, Network Functions Virtualization/Cloud-Native Network Functions, Kubernetes, OpenStack, edge computing, distributed systems, bare-metal platforms, and high-performance storage.
  • Strong understanding of high availability, resiliency, capacity and performance engineering, observability, telemetry, service assurance, automation, incident management, and disaster recovery.
  • Working knowledge of secure-by-design infrastructure, identity, segmentation, distributed denial-of-service protection, vulnerability management, supply-chain risk, compliance, and operational security.
  • Ability to translate business, financial, network, and technical strategies into scalable, measurable, defensible solutions and clear executive decisions.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, manage ambiguity, coach technical teams, and collaborate across sales, architecture, engineering, implementation, managed services, and partner organizations.
Responsibilities
  • Define GDT’s carrier-grade infrastructure strategy, reference architecture, standards, investment priorities, and multi-year roadmap across networking, telecom cloud, data center, edge, compute, storage, automation, observability, and operations.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor and executive sponsor to CTOs, CIOs, network executives, engineering leaders, boards, and senior stakeholders at telecommunications, service-provider, enterprise, government, and other strategic accounts.
  • Lead assessments and define target-state architectures, migration roadmaps, governance, testing, acceptance criteria, and operational-transition plans for complex network and infrastructure environments.
  • Provide technical leadership across IP/MPLS, BGP, OSPF/IS-IS, EVPN/VXLAN, segment routing, SDN/SD-WAN, secure WAN, traffic engineering, network automation, service orchestration, observability, and service assurance.
  • Advise on 4G/5G core, RAN, private wireless, NFV/CNF, Kubernetes, OpenStack, bare-metal infrastructure, public and private cloud, distributed compute, edge platforms, and high-performance storage where applicable.
  • Establish requirements for high availability, fault isolation, geographic redundancy, capacity, performance, disaster recovery, business continuity, security-by-design, DDoS protection, and measurable service-level outcomes.
  • Own the technical aspects of strategic pursuits, including discovery, solution design, bills of materials, statements of work, implementation plans, pricing inputs, RFP responses, demonstrations, ROI/TCO narratives, and executive proposals.
  • Translate technical recommendations into customer outcomes and qualify opportunities based on business value, technical fit, funding, delivery readiness, operational impact, and potential for advisory, professional, lifecycle, and managed services.
  • Lead executive briefings, architecture reviews, workshops, proofs of concept, customer advisory sessions, partner engagements, analyst briefings, conferences, and other field and market-facing activities.
  • Represent customer and service-provider requirements to GDT Architecture, Engineering, Product, Marketing, Sales, Implementation, and Managed Services teams; influence roadmaps, offerings, packaging, enablement, and go-to-market strategy.
  • Build strategic relationships with networking, telecom, cloud, automation, observability, and systems partners; guide architects and engineers; and promote consistent, repeatable delivery practices.
  • Lead major technical escalations and architecture decisions, evaluate emerging technologies and standards, and monitor measures such as availability, resiliency, performance, customer outcomes, service adoption, and financial contribution.
Desired Qualifications
  • Strong commercial and consulting acumen, with executive communication, presentation, negotiation, facilitation, technical storytelling, and customer relationship skills.
  • Experience with multi-vendor ecosystems; exposure to Cisco, Nokia, Juniper, HPE, Arista, Dell, VMware, Red Hat, cloud providers, and Kubernetes is preferred.
  • Familiarity with IETF, IEEE, 3GPP, ETSI, MEF, TM Forum, ITU-T, and relevant open-source communities; established industry presence is a plus.
  • Relevant certifications are preferred, including CCIE/CCDE, CCNP Service Provider, JNCIE/JNCIP, Nokia Service Routing, HPE Aruba or Juniper, cloud architecture, Kubernetes, OpenStack, TOGAF, SABSA, ITIL, PMP, or equivalent certifications.

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GDT is a global IT solutions provider that helps businesses accelerate digitalization by transforming and modernizing platforms, networks, and security through its infrastructure services. It offers a full range of IT services including support, management, and professional solutions tailored to client needs. How it works: GDT modernizes platforms to boost performance and scalability, transforms networks to improve connectivity and efficiency, and strengthens security to defend against evolving threats. These services are delivered as professional services, managed services, and IT infrastructure projects implemented by specialized teams. How it stands out: its global reach combined with end-to-end IT infrastructure expertise, a focus on platform, network, and security modernization, and customized solutions across various industries. Its goal is to help clients improve operational efficiency and drive business growth through effective digital transformation.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Australia

Founded

2006

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What believers are saying

  • Softcat values GDT at $1.05 billion, validating demand for its infrastructure stack.
  • Softcat expects GDT to deliver $240 million gross profit and $80 million EBITDA in 2026.
  • MDS Global IT and Bangalore expansion broaden GDT's collaboration and international delivery capabilities.

What critics are saying

  • Softcat closes by Q1 2027, and integration can distract GDT's sales and engineering teams.
  • GDT becomes a wholly owned subsidiary, reducing strategic autonomy and employee upside.
  • If Softcat misses financing or approvals, the deal collapses and GDT loses valuation momentum.

What makes GDT unique

  • GDT combines networking, data center, cybersecurity, and collaboration under one vendor relationship.
  • H.I.G. built GDT's Bangalore center, giving it global delivery without hyperscaler bloat.
  • Shawn O'Grady kept leadership intact, preserving customer relationships through rapid platform expansion.

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6 month growth

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1 year growth

11%

2 year growth

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PR Newswire
Oct 6th, 2026
GDT named NetApp North America Growth Partner of the Year for FY26.

GDT named NetApp North America Growth Partner of the Year for FY26. Oct 06, 2026, 12:13 ET DALLAS, Oct. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Global technology solutions provider GDT announced today that it has been named the NetApp North America Growth Partner of the Year for NetApp fiscal year 2026, recognizing GDT's ability to generate significant YoY growth in NetApp revenue across the portfolio. The North America Partner Awards winners have exemplified NetApp's goal of being customer-centric and understanding and selling NetApp solutions across its cloud, flash and NetApp Keystone(R) portfolios. The recognition marks GDT's third NetApp Partner of the Year award in three years, following NetApp Growth Partner of the Year for FY24 and Flash Partner of the Year for FY25. GDT has partnered with NetApp since 2004, holds more than 60 NetApp certifications and serves over 150 NetApp customers. "With deep expertise in enterprise data storage, management, and protection, we're helping customers build the data foundation they need as they move into the next phase of AI adoption," said Shawn O'Grady, Chair and CEO of GDT. "NetApp plays a critical role in our AI factory reference architecture, built for the speed and scale that enterprise AI workloads require." "Now more than ever, we must empower customers with AI-ready data that is secure by default and built for hybrid environments so they can achieve their business outcomes," said Alvaro Celis, Senior Vice President, Chief Commercial, Partner and Ecosystem Officer at NetApp. "I want to congratulate GDT on being named North America Growth Partner of the Year. Their use of the NetApp Platform to help customers simplify data ecosystems and solve complex problems exemplifies what it means to drive innovation in the AI era." About GDT GDT is a global technology solutions provider specializing in hybrid data center, networking and AI infrastructure, delivering secure AI-ready, carrier-grade platforms and services to customers in more than 100 countries. In addition to its U.S. presence, the company has a Bangalore Global Operations Center in India that provides strategic engineering and delivery services to clients ranging from global financial institutions and manufacturers to large healthcare systems, telecom operators and enterprise organizations. GDT has been helping organizations modernize and scale their IT environments to support innovation, resilience and growth for over 30 years. https://gdt.com NETAPP, the NETAPP logo, and the marks listed at http://www.netapp.com/TM are trademarks of NetApp, Inc. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners. SOURCE GDT

GDT - General Datatech
Sep 25th, 2026
Softcat acquires GDT in $1.05B 'enterprise value' global channel blockbuster deal.

Softcat acquires GDT in $1.05B 'enterprise value' global channel blockbuster deal. * September 25, 2026 "This is a formidable new global competitor that we are all going to have to deal with," said a U.S.-based SP 500 CEO, who did not want to be identified. "Hats off to Softcat for getting ahead of what is sure to be a new era of global competition as customers look for global scale and support for AI adoption and implementation." Softcat, the No. 1 U.K. solution provider on CRN's top VAR list for the last three years, has acquired U.S.-based GDT in a $1.05 billion "enterprise value" deal that creates a new global channel powerhouse. The acquisition combines the U.K.-based publicly traded Softcat with $2.85 billion in revenue and 2,800 employees with GDT, No. 56 on the 2026 CRN SP 500, a Dallas-based solution provider with 900 employees and $1.4 billion in annual revenue. H.I.G. Capital, the majority owner of GDT, said the deal has an enterprise value of $1.05 billion. Enterprise value represents the total value of the business being acquired, including debt and excluding cash. GDT, which has a significant data center and networking business, will retain its name, leadership team and workforce, operating as a wholly owned Softcat subsidiary. "This is a formidable new global competitor that we are all going to have to deal with," said a U.S.-based SP 500 CEO, who did not want to be identified, commenting on the deal. "Hats off to Softcat for getting ahead of what is sure to be a new era of global competition as customers look for global scale and support for AI adoption and implementation. I expect this trend to continue." In the new global solution provider era, $1 billion in revenue is minimum table stakes, said the CEO. "It used to be that $300 to $500 million companies could compete for these global deals," said the CEO. "That is no longer the case. You need to be a $1 billion-plus player." According to a Softcat regulatory filing, the acquisition will be funded through a combination of cash on the balance sheet (£100 million), new debt facilities with Softcat's relationship lenders (£550 million) comprising a £450 million revolving credit facility and £100 million term loan, and proceeds from an equity placing (£350 million), expected to represent less than 10 percent of issued share capital. In its press release, GDT said the deal creates a "market-leading transatlantic IT solutions platform that can support clients with international requirements while also providing growth opportunities in both organizations' markets." GDT said the acquisition is the "culmination" of Softcat's "multi-year search for a North American company with the scale, capabilities and cultural alignment to support its international growth strategy." The deal comes five years after H.I.G. Capital, a Miami-based provider of debt and equity capital to small and mid-sized companies, acquired an 80 percent stake in the solution provider. In a press release announcing the deal, H.I.G. said GDT doubled its EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) and increased its mix of recurring gross profit. "Joining forces with Softcat will benefit every customer, employee and technology partner as well as our respective bottom lines," said GDT CEO Shawn O'Grady in a prepared statement. In fact, GDT said customers will gain enhanced global support and deeper technical resources as both sides invest in expanding GDT's Global Operations Center in Bangalore. That investment, GDT said, will enable the center to provide expanded engineering expertise, optimized business systems and 24/7 service that is increasingly critical in today's always-on IT environment. Softcat Executive Director and CEO Graham Charlton, for his part, said in a prepared statement that customers have repeatedly asked the company to support their technology requirements outside the U.K. and Ireland, particularly in North America. "GDT meets every benchmark we looked for to meet that request, including meaningful U.S. scale, an established U.S. enterprise customer base, deep data center and networking capabilities, and a customer-first corporate culture that matches our own," said Charlton. "With GDT, we will be creating a company with the scale, talent and technical depth to capitalize on the massive growth opportunities in today's technology market." Softcat said the transaction is expected to close no later than the end of Q1 calendar year 2027, subject to customary regulatory filings and approvals. Several U.S.-based SP 500 CEOs said Softcat had approached them in recent years investigating the possibility of a deal. The critical factor in the final price of the deal would have been the percentage of services and recurring revenue that GDT brought to the table, said the SP 500 CEO, who did not want to be identified. "The higher the services revenue and recurring revenue, the higher the valuation," he said.

MarketScreener
Sep 18th, 2026
UK retail sales rebound; Softcat completes fundraise.

UK retail sales rebound; Softcat completes fundraise. Published on 09/18/2026 at 03:00 am EDT Alliance News (Alliance News) - UK retail sales rebound in August and beat market expectations. AstraZeneca's efzimfotase alfa receives 'Priority Review' in the US for the treatment of hypophosphatasia, while Softcat raises GBP354 million to help fund its USD1.05 billion acquisition of GDT. FTSE 100: called down 0.1% at 10,806.94 GBP: higher at USD1.3373 (USD1.3356 at previous London equities close) UK retail sales rebound in August, beating expectations, according to the Office for National Statistics. Retail sales volumes rise 0.5% month-on-month, reversing a 0.5% decline in July and outperforming the 0.2% fall expected by FXStreet. June's increase is revised down to 0.6% from 0.7%. The ONS says non-store retailers partially recover from July's decline, when sales were affected by promotions taking place earlier in June, while department store sales improve following stock availability issues. Retail sales volumes rise 2.4% year-on-year in August. Over the three months to August, volumes increase 0.9% from the previous three-month period and are 2.4% higher annually, supported by non-store retailers and food stores. BROKER RATINGS Berenberg raises Bytes Technology to 'buy' (hold) - price target 520 (360) pence COMPANIES - FTSE 100 AstraZeneca says the US Food & Drug Administration has accepted and granted 'Priority Review' designation to Alexion's biologics licence application for efzimfotase alfa to treat patients aged two years and older with hypophosphatasia, a rare inherited metabolic disease. The FDA's regulatory decision is expected in the first half of 2027. The application is supported by results from the phase 3 Hickory, Mulberry and Chestnut trials, in which AstraZeneca says efzimfotase alfa demonstrates a favourable safety profile and is generally well tolerated. If approved, the drug would be the first treatment designed to address skeletal abnormalities and functional impairments regardless of disease onset, with self-administration every two weeks. Regulatory submissions are also under review in Japan and other markets. COMPANIES - FTSE 250 Softcat raises around GBP354 million gross through an equity issue to help fund its USD1.05 billion acquisition of US IT solutions provider GDT Topco LP. The company places 18.5 million new shares at 1,890 pence each with institutional investors, while retail investors subscribe for a further 211,640 shares at the same price. Including a proposed subscription by directors, Softcat expects to issue a total of 18.7 million new shares, equivalent to around 9.5% of its existing share capital. The placing price represents a 4.0% discount to Thursday's closing price of 1,968p. Softcat announced the GDT acquisition on Thursday as it seeks to expand its presence in the US, with the deal expected to close by the end of the first quarter of financial 2027. The purchase is being funded through cash, new debt facilities and the equity raise. Softcat expects GDT to deliver high-single-digit to low-double-digit underlying earnings per share accretion in the first full financial year. On Thursday, the company also raised its financial 2026 outlook to high-teens underlying operating profit growth from mid-teens previously. Harworth unanimously rejects an increased cash takeover offer from Peel Bidco, saying the revised 177.5 pence-per-share proposal, up from 172.5p, continues to significantly undervalue the Rotherham, South Yorkshire-based property regeneration company. Peel Bidco and its concert parties have increased their stake to 30%, requiring the voluntary offer to be converted into a mandatory offer. Harworth advises shareholders who have not accepted the bid to reject it, those who have accepted to withdraw their acceptances, and shareholders not to sell further shares to Peel Bidco. The board describes the offer as "opportunistic", arguing it seeks to "extract value" from Harworth's future growth prospects. Harworth says it continues to make progress with its hyperscale data centre pipeline and targets exchanging a conditional contract for Site 2 in the fourth quarter, with completion and cash proceeds expected by the end of December 2028. It also completes the sale of a 40-acre site in St Helens, Merseyside, to Tritax Big Box Developments in line with book value. Meanwhile, Harworth targets at least GBP7.4 million of annualised run-rate cost savings by the end of 2028, with GBP1.3 million already realised and 94% of the planned savings expected to be achieved by the end of 2027. OTHER COMPANIES Fintech firm Revolut is considering a dual stock market listing in London and New York, although founder and Chief Executive Nik Storonsky says the fintech firm prefers the US for a potential initial public offering. Storonsky tells French newspaper Les Echos that Revolut is looking at listing on both the London Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, citing the larger pool of institutional and retail investors in the US. Revolut was most recently valued at USD115 billion in a share sale, meaning a flotation could make it one of the UK's largest listed companies and potentially surpass rival banks including Barclays and NatWest. Storonsky previously suggested an IPO could take place in around two years depending on market conditions, while Revolut is targeting further US growth ahead of a potential listing. boohoo Group, also known as Debenhams Group, brings Iain McDonald back to its board as non-executive chair just seven months after he stepped down, replacing Tim Morris with immediate effect. McDonald served on the board from June 2017 until February and says it was a "very difficult decision" to leave earlier this year. He returns as the group says the substantive elements of its operational turnaround are complete and its focus is shifting to rebuilding equity value. McDonald is also a material investor in boohoo, personally and through funds managed by his Belerion Capital Group, with an interest in 17.8 million shares. The online fashion group also appoints Michael Stewart of Chrysalis Investment Partners and Eagle Eye Solutions Group founder Stephen Rothwell as independent non-executive directors with immediate effect. boohoo says the appointments strengthen the board's capital markets and technology expertise as it moves into the next phase of its strategy, including developing its technology and AI-enabled platform. Morris leaves the board immediately after serving as chair since May 2021. JPMorgan UK Small Cap Growth & Income and Aberdeen UK Smaller Cos Growth Trust agree terms for a proposed combination, which would see Aberdeen UK Smaller Cos wound up and shareholders given the option to roll over their holdings into an enlarged JPMorgan UK Small Cap Growth & Income or take cash. The cash option is capped at 35% of Aberdeen UK Smaller Cos' issued share capital and would be priced at residual net asset value less a 2% discount. The enlarged trust would continue to be managed by JPMorgan Funds, with management fees reduced to 0.60% on net assets up to GBP200 million and 0.55% above that level. The combination is expected to complete by the end of 2026, subject to shareholder approvals, tax clearances and JPMorgan UK Small Cap Growth & Income passing its November continuation vote. Manju Malhotra and Steve Russell, currently directors of Aberdeen UK Smaller Cos, are expected to join the enlarged trust's board. Taboola.com agrees to acquire Dianomi in a recommended deal valuing the digital advertising firm at up to GBP27.0 million. Under the offer, Dianomi shareholders receive 64 pence in cash per share, valuing the company at around GBP19.0 million, plus contingent consideration of up to a further 24p per share. The cash portion represents a 68% premium to Dianomi's closing price of 38.0p on Thursday, while the maximum 88p consideration represents a 132% premium. Dianomi's board unanimously recommends the acquisition, while Taboola has secured irrevocable undertakings covering around 75.3% of Dianomi's issued shares. Taboola says the combination will strengthen its performance advertising offering, particularly across finance, business and lifestyle, while providing opportunities for revenue synergies and cost savings. The deal is expected to complete before the end of 2026, subject to shareholder, court and UK Competition & Markets Authority clearance. Thames Water's rescue deal by lenders should be rejected and the UK government should take it back into public control after the stricken supplier has been left in a damaging "doom loop", according to an influential group of MPs. A report by the Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Efra, Committee said the GBP10 billion takeover plans by a consortium of over 100 creditors in Thames Water does not have "the interests of the public, the company or the environment at heart". The cross-party committee gives a stark warning that the top priority for the bidders, called London & Valley Water, is to "extract immediate value from Thames Water, not steer it to long-term success". The report also raises concerns among the MPs on the committee over the lack of information available on the many creditors in what it claims is an "opaque" consortium. By Eva Castanedo, Alliance News senior economics reporter (C) Alliance News - 2026

PR Newswire
Jun 30th, 2026
GDT earns spot on 2026 Fortune Best Workplaces in Texas list.

GDT earns spot on 2026 Fortune Best Workplaces in Texas list. Jun 30, 2026, 10:21 ET DALLAS, June 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Great Place To Work(R) and Fortune magazine have recognized IT solutions provider GDT on the 2026 Fortune Best Workplaces in Texas(TM) list, ranking No. 28 among small and medium-sized businesses headquartered in Texas. The recognition is based entirely on employee feedback collected through the Great Place To Work's proprietary Trust Index(TM) survey, which measures key elements of workplace culture, including trust in leadership, respect, fairness, pride, camaraderie, employee well-being, and opportunities for growth. GDT was also recently recertified as a Great Place To Work-Certified(TM) organization in both the United States and India, with 90% of employees globally and 93% of U.S.-based employees saying GDT is a great place to work. "The best part of this recognition is knowing it comes directly from our employees," said Dave Arcemont, chief people officer at GDT. "Culture isn't something leadership creates. It's built every day by people who support one another, solve hard problems together, and genuinely care about the success of their teammates and customers. That's what makes GDT special, and it's why this recognition means so much to us." To determine the rankings, Great Place To Work analyzed confidential employee survey responses from eligible organizations across Texas. The methodology evaluates both the quality and consistency of workplace experiences across all employee groups and roles. Organizations with the broadest levels of positive employee feedback earn the highest rankings. To be eligible for the Fortune Best Workplaces in Texas list, companies must be Great Place To Work-Certified(TM), employ at least 10 people in the United States, and be headquartered in Texas. Organizations with 10 to 999 employees are considered in the small and medium business category. In the past year, Great Place To Work surveyed companies employing more than 7.3 million people across the United States and collected 1.3 million survey responses. Nearly 100,000 responses came from employees at companies eligible for the 2026 Fortune Best Workplaces in Texas list, with rankings determined entirely by employee feedback. GDT's continued recognition reflects the company's commitment to fostering a people-first culture that supports professional growth, innovation, collaboration, and exceptional client outcomes. GDT is a global IT solutions provider that delivers secure AI-ready, carrier-grade infrastructure and services to enterprise customers worldwide. With a 30-year heritage and a people-first approach, GDT helps organizations modernize and scale their IT environments to support innovation, resilience, and growth. Follow us on LinkedIn and explore GDT's culture and career opportunities. SOURCE GDT

GDT - General Datatech
Jun 30th, 2026
GDT earns spot on 2026 Fortune Best Workplaces in Texas list.

GDT earns spot on 2026 Fortune Best Workplaces in Texas list. * June 30, 2026 Dallas, TX, June 30, 2026 - Great Place To Work(R) and Fortune magazine have recognized IT solutions provider GDT on the 2026 Fortune Best Workplaces in Texas(TM) list, ranking No. 28 among small and medium-sized businesses headquartered in Texas. The recognition is based entirely on employee feedback collected through the Great Place To Work's proprietary Trust Index(TM) survey, which measures key elements of workplace culture, including trust in leadership, respect, fairness, pride, camaraderie, employee well-being, and opportunities for growth. GDT was also recently recertified as a Great Place To Work-Certified(TM) organization in both the United States and India, with 90% of employees globally and 93% of U.S.-based employees saying GDT is a great place to work. "The best part of this recognition is knowing it comes directly from our employees," said Dave Arcemont, chief people officer at GDT. "Culture isn't something leadership creates. It's built every day by people who support one another, solve hard problems together, and genuinely care about the success of their teammates and customers. That's what makes GDT special, and it's why this recognition means so much to us." To determine the rankings, Great Place To Work analyzed confidential employee survey responses from eligible organizations across Texas. The methodology evaluates both the quality and consistency of workplace experiences across all employee groups and roles. Organizations with the broadest levels of positive employee feedback earn the highest rankings. To be eligible for the Fortune Best Workplaces in Texas list, companies must be Great Place To Work-Certified(TM), employ at least 10 people in the United States, and be headquartered in Texas. Organizations with 10 to 999 employees are considered in the small and medium business category. In the past year, Great Place To Work surveyed companies employing more than 7.3 million people across the United States and collected 1.3 million survey responses. Nearly 100,000 responses came from employees at companies eligible for the 2026 Fortune Best Workplaces in Texas list, with rankings determined entirely by employee feedback. GDT's continued recognition reflects the company's commitment to fostering a people-first culture that supports professional growth, innovation, collaboration, and exceptional client outcomes. About GDT. GDT is a global IT solutions provider that delivers secure AI-ready, carrier-grade infrastructure and services to enterprise customers worldwide. With a 30-year heritage and a people-first approach, GDT helps organizations modernize and scale their IT environments to support innovation, resilience, and growth. Follow us on LinkedIn and explore GDT's culture and career opportunities. GDT Contact Chelsea Brickwedel Vice President, Global Marketing at GDT [email protected]