Board of Directors 

Board of Directors

Michael E. Katzenstein

Chairman of the Board

Mr. Katzenstein became Chairman of RCN Corporation in December 2007. He is a Founding Partner of CXO, LLC, a restructuring, crisis and turnaround management firm with national and international experience and practice concentrations in telecom, technology and media, since 2001. He is also a director and interim Chief Operating Officer of Global Photon Systems Inc. and Global West Networks Inc., private companies, as part of CXO's engagement as turnaround manager of those companies. Mr. Katzenstein also serves as Vice President of Pacific Crossing, Ltd. and PC Landing Corporation as a function of CXO’s engagement as turnaround manager of those debtors. Mr. Katzenstein began his career as a corporate attorney at Kronish Lieb Weiner & Hellman LLP and was elected to partnership in 1993. In 1995, Mr. Katzenstein left private practice and became Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel of OpTel, Inc., a provider of integrated cable television, local and long distance telephone and high-speed Internet services to the United States residential marketplace. He became President and CEO of OpTel in1999 and led the company through a Chapter 11 restructuring, completed in 2001. Mr. Katzenstein is a graduate of the State University of New York at Binghamton and Boston University School of Law.

Peter D. 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 Cable TV, Internet and Phone business and into the medium and large business sectors through fiber infrastructure investments. In 2007, Mr. Aquino accepted the Best Turnaround Business Stevie Award, which was awarded by the American Business Awards, a national awards program honoring great performances in business. Mr. Aquino also served as a Telecom Operations advisor throughout his career, focusing on Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLEC), cable and wireless business restructuring from 2001 to 2004. Mr. Aquino also lived and worked in Venezuela between 1995 and 2000 as the Chief Operating Officer of Veninfotel (now NetUno), a private telecom company. During his international assignment, Mr. Aquino managed the design, construction and operation of the first fiber-based Cable TV, Internet and Phone company in Latin America. Mr. Aquino began his 13-year career at Bell Atlantic (now Verizon) in 1983, holding positions in finance, marketing, regulatory and corporate development. Mr. Aquino earned a master’s degree in business administration from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. in 1990.

Benjamin C. Duster, IV

Mr. Duster is a partner at Masson & Company, LLC, an interim and crisis management and financial restructuring firm and has extensive experience in turnaround management and restructuring. From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Duster was a Managing Director at Wachovia Securities, where he headed the Mergers & Acquisitions advisory business focusing on middle market companies. From 1980 to 1997, Mr. Duster was at Salomon Brothers Inc., where his positions included associate in its proprietary Venture Capital Group and Vice President in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group specializing in bankruptcy reorganizations, financial restructurings and acquisitions of distressed companies. Mr. Duster is a graduate of Yale College, Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School. He currently serves on the boards of Algoma Steel, Inc. as Chairman, Neenah Foundry Company as a Board member and River Cities Capital Fund as an Advisory Board member.

Lee S. Hillman

Mr. Hillman has served as President of Liberation Investment Advisory Group and Liberation Management Services since 2004 and is currently a private investor, providing management consulting services to private equity funds and growth-stage businesses. He has extensive experience in service industry crisis and turnaround management and financial restructuring. From 1991 to 1996, Mr. Hillman was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Bally Entertainment Corporation, a publicly-traded diversified operator of hotels, casino resorts and other leisure properties. From 1996 to 2002, Mr. Hillman served as Chief Executive Officer, President and a director (and Chairman of the Board from 2000 to 2002), of Bally Total Fitness Holding Corporation, a publicly-traded owner and operator of health and fitness clubs. Mr. Hillman is a graduate of the Wharton School of Finance of the University of Pennsylvania and the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago. He serves as a director of Wyndham International, Inc. and Lawson Products Inc. currently.

Theodore H. Schell

Mr. Schell is currently a Managing Director at Liberty Associated Partners LLP. Prior to that, he was a General Partner at Apax Partners where he oversaw U.S. investments in telecommunications and related technology companies. Mr. Schell served for 11 years as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development and as a member of the Management Committee at Sprint Corporation. Before joining Sprint, Mr. Schell was the founder, President and CEO of Realcom Communications Corporation, an integrated provider of voice and data services to corporate clients. Mr. Schell is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. He serves as a director of Time Warner Telecom, Inc. and as a senior advisor to national and international cable television and telecommunications companies.

Daniel Tseung

Mr. Tseung is currently the Managing Director of Sun Hung Kai Properties Direct Investments Ltd., the private equity division of one of Asia's largest conglomerates, as well as Director of Investments for SUNeVision Holdings Limited, an Asian Internet infrastructure and services provider. He was previously a director in the Technology & Communications Group of GE Equity, the private equity arm of GE Capital. He also currently serves as a director for both Owens Corning and Chinacast Education Corporation. Mr. Tseung holds a bachelor's degree from Princeton University and a master's degree from Harvard University.

Charles E. Levine

Mr. Levine was appointed to the RCN Corporation Board of Directors in July 2008 and is an independent director of technology focused companies and a management consultant. Mr. Levine has an impressive track record of developing brands into large businesses, most notably at Sprint PCS (now Sprint Nextel), where he oversaw revenue growth from zero to $13 billion in less than five years, and at AT&T, where he turned around the Consumer Products and Small Business Markets, winning Popular Electronics Product of the Year for one video conferencing product. Mr. Levine began his career at Procter & Gamble Company, where he managed leading brands, and General Electric, where he rose to the position of general manager, Home Control Products, Consumer Electronics. He has held senior management positions at CAD Forms Technology and Octel Communications (now part of Lucent). Mr. Levine was named Marketer of the Year in 1999 by MC Magazine and CEO of the Year in 2001 by Frost & Sullivan for his notable achievements at Sprint PCS. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Openwave Systems and Sierra Wireless. He holds a master’s degree in business administration (Marketing) from the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management-Northwestern University, and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Trinity College.