Peter Aquino

Mr. Aquino is President and Chief Executive Officer of RCN Corporation since December 2004, and a Board member. Under his leadership, RCN has expanded beyond the residential Triple Play broadband business and into the medium and large business sectors through organic growth, as well as through acquisitions, including: Starpower in DC, ConEd Communications in NY, and Northeast Optical Networks (NEON) in New England. In 2007, Mr. Aquino accepted the Best Business Turnaround Stevie Award, presented by American Business Awards, a national program. Prior to joining RCN, Mr. Aquino was engaged as a telecom M&A, operations, and restructuring advisor as Senior Managing Director by Communications Technology Advisors LLC, focusing on CLEC, cable, and wireless carriers from 2001 to 2004. During RCN's restructuring in 2004, the company retained Mr. Aquino as an operations advisor, and was later named President and CEO as part of the new management team at emergence from bankruptcy in December 2004. Mr. Aquino's international experience includes the launch of Veninfotel (now NetUno) in Caracas, Venezuela from 1995 and 2000, as part of the founding team of Wave International. In 1998, Mr. Aquino was named Chief Operating Officer of Veninfotel and managed the design, construction, and operation of the first integrated Triple Play and metro fiber-based Commercial company in Latin America. Prior to Mr. Aquino's expatriate assignment, his telecom career began at New Jersey Bell/Bell Atlantic (now Verizon) in 1983, holding various positions in finance, marketing, regulatory, and corporate development over a 13 year period. Mr. Aquino is a graduate of Montclair State University in NJ, and the Graduate School of Business at George Washington University in D.C., and joined the United Way U.S. National Board of Trustees in 2009.