Alison Halpern, the Chief Accounting Officer and Principal Accounting Officer of the AG Mortgage Investment Trust, Inc., is on maternity leave. On November 5, 2020, the Board of Directors of the Company (the "Board") appointed Anthony Rossiello, the Company’s Controller, to serve in a temporary capacity as the acting Principal Accounting Officer of the Company during the term of Ms. Halpern’s maternity leave. Mr. Rossiello, 33, joined the finance team of Angelo, Gordon & Co., L.P., the parent of the Company's external manager ("Angelo Gordon"), as the Controller of the Company in August 2020. Prior to joining Angelo Gordon, Mr. Rossiello was a Senior Manager at Ernst & Young LLP, and has more than 11 years of accounting and finance experience working with publicly traded companies within the banking and mortgage REIT industry.