About Ed Anuff
Ed Anuff has over 20 years experience working in technology, both as an entrepreneur, creating innovative consumer and enterprise products and starting and selling several companies, and as an executive, helping to define product strategy at companies ranging from early stage to publicly traded.
Ed Anuff was most recently the EVP of Platform Products & Services at Six Apart, helping develop the company's platform strategy for web services and bringing these to market, as well as overseeing the company's professional services groups delivering solutions based on Six Apart's platform technologies.
Prior to joining Six Apart, he was the Founding CEO of Widgetbox, developing the concept for a web widget store, building a team to design and implement it, and bringing it to market. He raised two rounds of funding from Sequoia Capital and Hummer Winblad, before departing from the company in late 2007.
Previously, he was the Founding CEO and Chairman of Epicentric, where he pioneered the concept of the enterprise portals and helped built it into a $2B market. At Epicentric, he ran all product management for the company, helping grow the company to over $40 million in annual revenues, with 300+ employees at the time it was acquired in late 2002 by Vignette, where he was a VP until late 2004.
Prior to Epicentric, he was the Director of Product Management at Wired Digital (HotWired) where he launched and managed the HotBot search engine, managing partnerships with Inktomi and Microsoft. Prior to that, he was VP of Product Marketing at Motion Works, an early maker of multimedia authoring tools.
Mr. Anuff is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has contributed to publications such as Wired magazine and the Web Services Journal, and was the author of the best selling Java Sourcebook, one of the first books on Java programming. Mr. Anuff has experience with a number of programming languages and is a proficient software architect, and has had a long history of software development for desktop, server, mobile, and embedded environments.
In 2001, he was granted a key patent (US Patent # 6,327,628) related to portal server software.
Ed Anuff was most recently the EVP of Platform Products & Services at Six Apart, helping develop the company's platform strategy for web services and bringing these to market, as well as overseeing the company's professional services groups delivering solutions based on Six Apart's platform technologies.
Prior to joining Six Apart, he was the Founding CEO of Widgetbox, developing the concept for a web widget store, building a team to design and implement it, and bringing it to market. He raised two rounds of funding from Sequoia Capital and Hummer Winblad, before departing from the company in late 2007.
Previously, he was the Founding CEO and Chairman of Epicentric, where he pioneered the concept of the enterprise portals and helped built it into a $2B market. At Epicentric, he ran all product management for the company, helping grow the company to over $40 million in annual revenues, with 300+ employees at the time it was acquired in late 2002 by Vignette, where he was a VP until late 2004.
Prior to Epicentric, he was the Director of Product Management at Wired Digital (HotWired) where he launched and managed the HotBot search engine, managing partnerships with Inktomi and Microsoft. Prior to that, he was VP of Product Marketing at Motion Works, an early maker of multimedia authoring tools.
Mr. Anuff is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has contributed to publications such as Wired magazine and the Web Services Journal, and was the author of the best selling Java Sourcebook, one of the first books on Java programming. Mr. Anuff has experience with a number of programming languages and is a proficient software architect, and has had a long history of software development for desktop, server, mobile, and embedded environments.
In 2001, he was granted a key patent (US Patent # 6,327,628) related to portal server software.
