Fellow: The membership grade of Fellow is a selective and prestigious honor for the recipients. Approval of Fellow is in recognition of professional attainment and significant accomplishment in cost management or cost engineering. Fellows are designated by the following acronym: FAACE. Nominees are vetted by the Fellow Admissions Committee and recommended for approval of a majority vote by the Board of Directors. The criteria used in awarding Fellow classifications are: Professional attainment based on contributions to the professional advancement of cost management, cost engineering, or the engineering profession and valuable service to AACE International; and contributions to the knowledge of the profession and dissemination of that knowledge based on publications, presentations, and bringing cost management/cost engineering to industry, educational institutions, forums, or government agencies.

Anthony J. Gonzales, FAACE – Anthony joined AACE International in 2007. He has been a presenter of webinars and technical papers. Anthony is the Chair of the Claims & Dispute Resolution Technical Subcommittee (2020-present) leading the effort with the CDR webinar series. He has been an associate member of the Technical Board (2022-present). Anthony has previously served as president of the Central Texas Section having led the effort to restart that section. He has been a lecturer in courses to graduate student engineers in cost estimating, CPM scheduling, claims identification, schedule delay analysis, quantification of damages, an productivity loss at the University of Texas at Austin (June 11-present). He is the Managing Principal at Spire Consulting Group, LLC. Anthony has previously been recognized by AACE with the Keane Award for Distinguished Service to an AACE Section (2014).