Rich Agnello:  

Life With over 20 years Information Technology experience, and nearly 100 years’ of combined volunteer service, Rich Agnello has served both his profession and the community consistently and well from his Upstate New York upbringing. Rich Agnello was born in Irondequoit, New York in 1957 and raised in Webster, New York, both east of Rochester, and attended local parochial schools, including Irondequoit’s Bishop Kearney High School, where he graduated in the top two percent of his class in 1975 and completed 20 semester-hours of undergraduate study through AP and college-extension agreements. At Bishop Kearney, Agnello was a National Honor Society and Who’s Who Among American High School Students nominee. He also earned a Varsity Letter in Soccer, along with a Degree of Distinction from the National Forensic League. During a four-year, interscholastic public speaking career that spanned 45 tournaments, he won the Monroe County American Legion oratorical contest two years in a row (the first participant ever to do so) and was a Semifinalist at the prestigious Hendrick Hudson High School tourney outside New York City. Agnello went on to Marquette University, where he earned a BA in Speech cum laude in 1978 with an Honors Program certificate after only 3 years, as well as graduated in the top 10% of his class. During his undergraduate years, he was a Varsity Letterman in Soccer and a Diederich College of Communication student council president. Agnello was also named to Alpha Sigma Nu, Who’s Who Among American College and Universities, and International Youth in Achievement at Marquette. He went on to the University of Denver for his graduate studies, where he earned a Master of Public Administration degree from the Daniels College of Business in only 1 year, achieving a perfect 4.0 GPA. While at the University of Denver, Agnello was a Beta Gamma Sigma and Pi Alpha Alpha honoree. He has also completed certificate programs in Computer Programming from Control Dat...Expand for more