Board of Directors 

Board of Directors

Lee S. Hillman

Chairman of the Board

Mr. Hillman served as Vice Chairman of RCN Corporation from January to June 2009 was named Chairman in June 2009. Mr. Hillman has served as President of Liberation Investment Advisory Group and Liberation Management Services since 2003, both private management consulting firms. Since January 2009, Mr. Hillman has also served as Chief Executive Officer of Performance Health Systems, LLC, an early-stage business distributing bioDensity ® branded, specialty health and exercise equipment. Mr. Hillman has extensive experience in service industry crisis and turnaround management and financial restructuring. From 1991 to 1996, he 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 Lawson Products Inc. and a trustee of Adelphia Recovery Trust.

Peter D. Aquino

President and CEO

Mr. Aquino is President and Chief Executive Officer of RCN Corporation, and has been a Board member since 2004. 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 fiber infrastructure investments. In 2009, he accepted the Best Turnaround of the Year Stevie Award and Executive of the Year - Telecommunications (American Business Awards). Mr. Aquino has 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, managing the design, construction and operation of the first fiber-based Cable TV, Internet and Phone company in Latin America. Mr. Aquino began his 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, and serves on the Board of Trustees of United Way and Board of Directors for Primus Telecommunications Group.

Benjamin C. Duster, IV

Mr. Duster owns and manages B. Duster & Company, LLC, a strategic and financial consulting firm located in Atlanta, Georgia. He is also a senior advisor at Watermark Advisors LLC, a broker-dealer headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina. From October 2001 through May 2005, Mr. Duster was 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 served as Chairman of the Board of Algoma Steel, Inc. from February 2002 through June 2007, and currently serves as a director of Catalyst, Inc. and River Cities Capital Fund as an Advisory Board member.

Jose A. Cecin, Jr.

Mr. Cecin, a member of RCN's Board of Directors since April 2009, serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and leads RCN’s Residential/Small Business segment. Most recently, he was founder and President of Lumina Advisors. Prior to forming Lumina, Mr. Cecin was Managing Director and Group Head of the Communications Investment Banking practice of BB&T Capital Markets. In 1999, he co-founded and served as Chief Operating Officer of Cambrian Communications. Mr. Cecin also co-founded Wave International, an emerging markets telecommunications infrastructure company that built a triple-play telecommunications company in the 5 largest cities in Venezuela. He also served as Managing Director of Corporate Development at Bell Atlantic Corporation (now Verizon). Mr. Cecin is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of Arbinet Corporation and a Director of SkyTerra Communications. From 2004 to 2007, he was an independent Director of NEON Group, Inc., subsequently acquired by RCN Corporation. Mr. Cecin earned a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point and an MBA from Stanford University. He also served as an officer in the United States Army’s 25th Infantry Division.

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.