diff --git a/transport-native-epoll/src/main/java/io/netty/channel/epoll/EpollEventLoopGroup.java b/transport-native-epoll/src/main/java/io/netty/channel/epoll/EpollEventLoopGroup.java
index 2922625eb0..f685d5db88 100644
--- a/transport-native-epoll/src/main/java/io/netty/channel/epoll/EpollEventLoopGroup.java
+++ b/transport-native-epoll/src/main/java/io/netty/channel/epoll/EpollEventLoopGroup.java
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 package io.netty.channel.epoll;
 
 import io.netty.channel.DefaultSelectStrategyFactory;
+import io.netty.channel.EventLoop;
 import io.netty.channel.EventLoopGroup;
 import io.netty.channel.MultithreadEventLoopGroup;
 import io.netty.channel.SelectStrategyFactory;
@@ -48,7 +49,7 @@ public final class EpollEventLoopGroup extends MultithreadEventLoopGroup {
      */
     @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
     public EpollEventLoopGroup(int nThreads, SelectStrategyFactory selectStrategyFactory) {
-        this(nThreads, null, selectStrategyFactory);
+        this(nThreads, (ThreadFactory) null, selectStrategyFactory);
     }
 
     /**
@@ -59,6 +60,10 @@ public final class EpollEventLoopGroup extends MultithreadEventLoopGroup {
         this(nThreads, threadFactory, 0);
     }
 
+    public EpollEventLoopGroup(int nThreads, Executor executor) {
+        this(nThreads, executor, DefaultSelectStrategyFactory.INSTANCE);
+    }
+
     /**
      * Create a new instance using the specified number of threads and the given {@link ThreadFactory}.
      */
@@ -91,6 +96,10 @@ public final class EpollEventLoopGroup extends MultithreadEventLoopGroup {
         super(nThreads, threadFactory, maxEventsAtOnce, selectStrategyFactory);
     }
 
+    public EpollEventLoopGroup(int nThreads, Executor executor, SelectStrategyFactory selectStrategyFactory) {
+        super(nThreads, executor, 0, selectStrategyFactory);
+    }
+
     /**
      * Sets the percentage of the desired amount of time spent for I/O in the child event loops.  The default value is
      * {@code 50}, which means the event loop will try to spend the same amount of time for I/O as for non-I/O tasks.