Arunas A. Chesonis is
Chairman of the Board
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and
CEO
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of Sweetwater Energy, a
Rochester, New York renewable energy company. His appointment was announced on December 16, 2011. Chesonis previously served as the chairman of the board, president, and chief executive officer of
PAETEC Corp. since May 1998, when he founded the company. In 2011, Chesonis sold PAETEC to Windstream Communications for $2.3 billion.
Arunas Chesonis is a civil engineering graduate of
MIT and holds an M.B.A. from the
William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration
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at the
University of Rochester. He sits
on the board of the MIT School of Engineering Dean's Advisory Council (DAC).
"MIT School of Engineering Dean's Advisory Council"; Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Engineering Dean's Advisory Council. Accessed Sept. 11, 2019.
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21st-century American businesspeople
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
MIT School of Engineering alumni
University of Rochester alumni
1966 births