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==Career==
Prior to joining ICANN, Gerich worked for Juniper Networks for nine years, where she served most recently as Director of Software Product Management. Before then, she worked as the Director of Operations for the @Home Network, which "built and operated the first national backbone for delivery of Internet Services by North American cable operators". Before @Home, Gerich served as the Associate Director National Networking at Merit Network in Michigan. While at Merit she was also a Principal Investigator for NSFNET's T3 Backbone Project and the Routing Arbiter Project. She also has served as co-chair of the Internet Planning Group (IEPG), chair and co-founder of the North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG), the National Science Foundation's representative on the Federal Engineering Planning Group, and a member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB). Gerich earned her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan.<ref>[https://www.icann.org/profiles/elise-gerich Elise Gerich], ICANN Retrieved November 19, 2015.</ref>