Ed Anuff is a serial entrepreneur

Entrepreneur

An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...

 who was most recently Executive Vice President and GM, Platform Products and Services at Six Apart, Ltd.

Six Apart

Six Apart Ltd., sometimes abbreviated 6A, is a software company known for creating the Movable Type blogware, TypePad blog hosting service, and Vox. The company also is the former owner of LiveJournal. Six Apart is headquartered in Tokyo and is planning to open a new, U.S.-based office in New York...

  Before joining Six Apart he was co-founder of Widgetbox

Widgetbox

Widgetbox is a San Francisco, California based company that enables businesses to create and deliver applications to their customers.Widgetbox products include:Widgetbox Mobile: build and distribute mobile web applications for iPhone and Android....

 (with Giles Goodwin and Dean Moses), a marketplace

Marketplace

A marketplace is the space, actual, virtual or metaphorical, in which a market operates. The term is also used in a trademark law context to denote the actual consumer environment, ie. the 'real world' in which products and services are provided and consumed.-Marketplaces and street markets:A...

 for widgets, and the company's original CEO. Prior to founding Widgetbox

Widgetbox

Widgetbox is a San Francisco, California based company that enables businesses to create and deliver applications to their customers.Widgetbox products include:Widgetbox Mobile: build and distribute mobile web applications for iPhone and Android....

, Anuff was co-founder of enterprise software

Enterprise software

Enterprise software, also known as enterprise application software , is software used in organizations, such as in a business or government, contrary to software chosen by individuals...

 company Epicentric

Epicentric

Epicentric, Inc., was an Enterprise software company and a provider of enterprise portal solutions for Global 2000 companies. Made popular by custom portal sites like My Yahoo!, enterprise portals enabled businesses to deliver integrated Web services to their customers , partners and employees...

 (with Oliver Muoto

Oliver Muoto

Oliver Muoto is a Polish-born serial entrepreneur responsible for co-founding several early stage companies including vFlyer , Epicentric and RandomNoise...

), a leading provider of Enterprise portal

Enterprise portal

An enterprise portal, also known as an enterprise information portal or corporate portal, is a framework for integrating information, people and processes across organizational boundaries. It provides a secure unified access point, often in the form of a web-based user interface, and is designed...

 software. He served as Epicentric

Epicentric

Epicentric, Inc., was an Enterprise software company and a provider of enterprise portal solutions for Global 2000 companies. Made popular by custom portal sites like My Yahoo!, enterprise portals enabled businesses to deliver integrated Web services to their customers , partners and employees...

's first CEO, later assuming the roles of chairman and chief strategy officer. Prior to co-founding Epicentric

Epicentric

Epicentric, Inc., was an Enterprise software company and a provider of enterprise portal solutions for Global 2000 companies. Made popular by custom portal sites like My Yahoo!, enterprise portals enabled businesses to deliver integrated Web services to their customers , partners and employees...

, he was an executive at Wired

Wired (magazine)

Wired is a full-color monthly American magazine and on-line periodical, published since January 1993, that reports on how new and developing technology affects culture, the economy, and politics...

 (parent of Wired.com) responsible for the launch of HotBot

HotBot

HotBot is a web search engine launched in May 1996 by Wired Magazine. It is currently owned by Lycos. HotBot became a popular tool with search results served by the Inktomi database and directory results provided originally by LookSmart and then the Open Directory Project since mid-1999...

, one of the first news search engines, in May 1996.

Anuff is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Stephen Van Rensselaer established the Rensselaer School on November 5, 1824 with a letter to the Rev. Dr. Samuel Blatchford, in which van Rensselaer asked Blatchford to serve as the first president. Within the letter he set down several orders of business. He appointed Amos Eaton as the school's...

 (RPI) and author of the best selling Java Sourcebook, published by John Wiley & Sons

John Wiley & Sons

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., also referred to as Wiley, is a global publishing company that specializes in academic publishing and markets its products to professionals and consumers, students and instructors in higher education, and researchers and practitioners in scientific, technical, medical, and...

, one of the first books on the Java programming language.

Patents

In 2001, Anuff was also granted a key patent

Patent

A patent is a form of intellectual property. It consists of a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention....

(US Patent # 6,327,628) related to portal server software.

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

External links

• http://www.anuff.com Personal website.
• LinkedIn Profile