Effective as of July 16, 2021, the Board of Directors of American Virtual Cloud Technologies, Inc. appointed Darrell Mays as the Company's Chief Executive Officer, replacing Xavier Williams. Mr. Williams continues to serve as a director of the Company, and was elected as a Vice Chairman of the Board, and is expected to serve in those capacities through September 1, 2021. Mr. Mays, age 57, has served on the Board since July 2017 and previously served as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer from April 2016 until September 30, 2020. Mr. Mays has served as a Managing Partner of the SPAC Operations Group at Navigation Capital Partners, Inc. since September 2020. An affiliate of Navigation is a significant stockholder of the Company. Mr. Mays was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of nsoro, a turnkey wireless installation services provider, from 2003 to 2008, which was acquired by MasTec, Inc. in August 2008, and continued to serve as an executive of MasTec following that acquisition.