Elise Gerich

Elise Gerich serves as ICANN's Vice President, IANA & Technical Operations.

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 Principle 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.

Resources

• The IANA Functions in 180 Seconds featuring Elise Gerich (March 27, 2014) by ICANNnews, YouTube
• ICANN urges IPv6 adoption as global address shortage looms by Leon Spencer (May 23, 2014), ZDNet
• APRICOT 2015: Elise Gerich looking back at the ABC’s of the Number Registry System by George Michaelson (March 2, 2015), APNIC
• IANA Update & FoI Implementation Planning - Elise Gerich, IANA; Naela Sarras IANA | Presentation, ICANN (2015)

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

Internet Architecture Board