PAETEC CEO, Intellectual Property Attorney Join RIT Trustees
Arunas A. Chesonis is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of PAETEC Communications, a communications solutions provider offering broadband services, including local and long distance voice services, data and Internet services, software applications, and network integration services. Within five years of founding PAETEC in 1998, Chesonis led the company to achieve the number two ranking in the 2003 Deloitte “Fast 500” list of the fastest-growing public and private technology companies in North America.
Chesonis holds a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MBA from the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester, and an honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Rochester.
Brian P. O’Shaughnessy is a partner in the intellectual property law firm of Burns Doane Swecker and Mathis in Alexandria, Va. O’Shaughnessy is a registered patent attorney with more than 18 years of experience in intellectual property law. His practice involves counseling clients in the procurement and proper use of intellectual property rights, particularly in the chemical, pharmaceutical and biotechnology disciplines, including representing applicants before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
O’Shaughnessy is the new chairman of RIT’s Alumni Network Board of Directors. He holds a bachelor of science and master of science degree in chemistry from RIT, and a J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law.