Ed Anuff

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Ed Anuff
Occupation entrepreneur
Website http://www.anuff.com

Ed Anuff is an entrepreneur and Head of Product at Datastax. Prior to Datastax, he was Vice President of Product Strategy at Apigee. [1] He is the founder of cloud based service Usergrid. Prior to Usergrid, he served as Executive Vice President and GM, Platform Products and Services at Six Apart, Ltd. [2]

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Career

Prior to joining Datastax, Anuff founded cloud service Usergrid. Apigee acquired Usergrid in January 2012. [3] Prior to Usergrid, he served as Executive Vice President and GM, Platform Products and Services at Six Apart, Ltd. [2]

Before joining Six Apart Anuff was co-founder of Widgetbox (with Giles Goodwin and Dean Moses), [4] a marketplace for widgets. He was the company's original CEO. Prior to founding Widgetbox, Anuff was co-founder of enterprise software company Epicentric (with Oliver Muoto), [5] a leading provider of Enterprise portal software. He served as Epicentric's first CEO, later assuming the roles of chairman and chief strategy officer.

Prior to co-founding Epicentric, he was an executive at Wired (parent of Wired.com) responsible for the launch of HotBot, one of the first news search engines, in May 1996. [6]

Anuff is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and author of the best selling Java Sourcebook, published by John Wiley & Sons, one of the first books on the Java programming language.

Patents

In 2001, Anuff was also granted a key patent (US Patent # 6,327,628) [7] related to portal server software.

In 2010, Anuff and eight coworkers were granted US Patent # 7,801,990, [8] [9] "Graphical user interface for performing administration on web components of web sites in a portal framework".

Books

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  5. Erich Luening (July 6, 1999). "Epicentric unveils software for corporate portals". CNET News. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
  6. HotBot History
  7. Business Wire (December 4, 2001). "Epicentric Granted Patent on Administration of Portal User Privileges; Patent Protects Key Component of Epicentric's Enterprise Portal Management System". Business Wire. Retrieved 2008-05-27.{{cite news}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  8. "Graphical user interface for performing administration on web components of web sites in a portal framework".
  9. "New patent - Ed Anuff". www.anuff.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-07.