Arunas A. Chesonis is Chairman of the Board and

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of Sweetwater Energy, a

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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

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and holds an M.B.A. from the

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at the

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. 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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