Gus Reese is the Director for Edge Engineering for Cogent Communications Inc. He has been in this role for eight years. His current duties include managing all Cogent IP resources, point of contact for all five RIRs, managing a team of eight engineers who are responsible for all customer and peer transit connections and Cogent’s own global peering exchange. Prior to that he was a senior network engineer responsible for engineering solutions for customers to connect to each other and the rest of the Internet and helped deploy network wide role out of IPv6 in 2007. Gus started out in the Internet industry in 1998 working for a local dial-up provider in Fort Worth, Texas. Gus was elected to the AC in October of 2022. His term expires 31 December 2025.