Jonathan Rosenson

President and Chief Operating Officer Expedient

Last Reviewed: September 28, 2026

Executive Summary

Jonathan Rosenson is President and Chief Operating Officer of Expedient, the Pittsburgh-based full-stack cloud service provider. He has spent his entire career in the regional internet and infrastructure business that became Expedient: a founding employee and director of Stargate.net in 1994, he came into Expedient through its acquisition of that company and has since run the operational side of the business, from round-the-clock support and service delivery to information systems and IT compliance. When the company changed chief executives at the start of 2023, he was promoted to President, the most senior role supporting the new CEO, while keeping the COO portfolio. Outside Expedient he chairs the board of WQED Multimedia, Pittsburgh’s PBS station.

Career Highlights

• President and Chief Operating Officer of Expedient since 1 January 2023, having previously been Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (Expedient executive team page and January 2023 release).
• Oversaw Expedient’s 24x7x365 support centre, service delivery, information systems, technical recruiting, IT compliance and marketing messaging functions (Expedient).
• Founding employee and director of Stargate.net, Inc. from 1994, responsible for integrating acquired companies; joined Expedient through the Stargate.net acquisition (Expedient; WQED).
• Chair of the Board of WQED Multimedia, on whose board he has sat since 2018 (WQED).
• Board member of the Marcus L. Ruscitto Charitable Foundation since 2004 (WQED).
• Pittsburgh Magazine 40 Under 40 honoree, 2001 (Expedient; WQED).

Professional Journey

Rosenson studied rhetorical criticism at the University of Pittsburgh and went into the early commercial internet business in his home city. In 1994 he was a founding employee and director of Stargate.net, Inc., where his responsibilities included integrating the companies Stargate acquired and their day-to-day general management. He came into Expedient through its acquisition of Stargate.net; WQED’s biography of him dates his Expedient tenure from 2003.

At Expedient he took on the operational core of the business. The company credits him with oversight of its 24x7x365 support centre operations, service delivery, information systems, technical recruiting, IT compliance and marketing messaging, and he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Over that period Expedient grew from a regional connectivity provider into a data centre and cloud infrastructure company; its principal investor today is InfraBridge, part of DigitalBridge.

At the start of 2023 Expedient reorganised its leadership. Chief Strategy Officer Bryan Smith became CEO on 1 January, previous President and CEO Shawn McGorry became Chairman, and Rosenson was named President and Chief Operating Officer, which the company described as the most senior-level role in support of the new CEO, retaining his COO responsibilities. He continues to hold that title on the company’s executive team page. He is not listed on Expedient’s board. The company also notes that he was a member of VMware’s executive partner advisory board.

His civic work centres on Pittsburgh. He joined the board of WQED Multimedia, the city’s PBS affiliate, in 2018, building on five years of grant-making to the station through the Marcus L. Ruscitto Charitable Foundation, on whose board he has sat since 2004. That collaboration began with anti-bullying public service announcements on WQED and PBS KIDS and later moved into digital media projects for preschool and early elementary children. WQED now lists him as Chair of its board. He is a graduate of Leadership Pittsburgh’s Leadership Development Initiative (1999) and lives in the City of Pittsburgh.

Education

University of Pittsburgh

BA, Rhetorical Criticism