| 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]
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.
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.
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".