POTSDAM – Clarkson University has made six new appointments to its board of trustees.

Clarkson 1980 graduate Peter Devlin of Winchester, Mass., will serve on the board’s Audit and Internal Affairs committees.

Devlin is the president and CEO of Fish & Richardson P.C., a major intellectual property law firm with more than 400 attorneys and technology specialists across the United States and in Europe. He has served in the top leadership position at the firm since 2000.

Robert DiFulgentiz, a 1976 Clarkson graduate from Frisco, Texas, will serve on the Facilities and Investment committees.

DiFulgentiz is president and chief operating officer of Koch Chemical Technology Group LLC, where he leads a diverse group of companies that design, manufacture, install and service engineered equipment for processing industries worldwide.

He also serves on the boards of Koch Chemical Technology Group and many of its subsidiaries. Koch Chemical Technology Group is a subsidiary of Koch Industries Inc. He became president of Koch Engineering in 1996,

Ken Lally of St. Petersburg, Fla., a 1979 Clarkson graduate, will serve on the Audit and External Affairs committees.

Lally is the owner and director of SimuTech Group, Inc. headquartered in Rochester. He has been with the company since 2000, starting as the chief executive officer before gaining his current title in 2015. SimuTech’s business areas include ASYS software sales, ANSYS support services including technical support and training, engineering simulation consultation services, and turbomachinery and physical testing support and services.

Clarkson 1982 alumnus Rajan Raghavan of Saratoga, Calif. will serve on the Investment and Internal Affairs committees.

Raghavan is CEO of The Fabric, which teams up with entrepreneurs to co-create, fund and accelerate companies operating in the infrastructure of "the cloud" and IoT ("internet of Things") space. The Fabric is the sixth company started by Raghavan, having previously founded Mediaway, Virtual Chips (acquired by Phoenix Technologies), RealChip Communication, Xambala (acquired by Final), and Ankeena (acquired by Juniper).

Raghavan earned a master of science degree in electrical engineering from Clarkson in 1982.

Alumnus Dennis Weller of Clayton, from the Class of '71, has been elected to the board. He will serve on the Facilities and Development committees.

Weller is the founder and chairman of the board of Structural Associates Inc., a general construction and construction management firm established in 1975.

With its corporate offices in Syracuse and principal office in Watertown, Structural Associates specializes in general construction, construction management, program management, and contracting to both design and build a single project.

He is also vice chairman of the Clayton Local Development Corporation.

In 2004, he was named the Associated Builders and Contractors National Contractor of the Year.

Cody Rosen, Class of 2013, of Kingston, Ont., in another new member of the board. He will serve on the Finance & Budget and Development committees.

Rosen is executive vice president and sales representative for Kimco Steel in Kingston.

Founded by Rosen's great-grandfather over 120 years ago, Kimco is eastern Ontario's most innovative and modern new steel, scrap metal, and recycling center.

He spent four seasons on the Golden Knights hockey team as a goalie and he was named an ECAC Hockey All-Academic player all four years.