Anark Appoints Rus Rice as VP Engineering to Support Continued Growth

Anark welcomes Rus Rice as the new Vice President of Engineering. Mr. Rice is an experienced engineering leader and executive with a proven track record of leading high growth technology organizations to deliver scalable, high quality SaaS products across multiple industries: aerospace/defense, telecom, mobile, streaming media, and IT management software in both startup and large enterprise organizations. Prior to joining Anark, Mr. Rice was Head of SaaS engineering at JumpCloud, and has held various engineering leadership positions at Microsoft, Warner Media, and several startups in Colorado and on the west coast.

“I’m thrilled to have Rus join our executive team. His experience building and scaling engineering, quality and support organizations is critical as we continue to grow our business with some of the largest, most complex manufacturers in the world.” –Fred Waugh, CEO of Anark

“Digital thread and MBE (Model-based Enterprise) transformations are creating tremendous opportunity for manufacturers to dramatically accelerate the performance of their businesses. Anark is in a fantastic position to help our customers drive these transformations. It’s a great time to be in this industry, and I’m excited to be a part of its evolution and growth.” -Rus Rice, VP of Engineering at Anark.

About Anark Corporation

Anark Corporation is a leading provider of content collaboration software for manufacturers, empowering companies such as Lockheed Martin, General Electric, Schaeffler, Boeing, Ericsson, Cohu, Cisco, and the U.S. Department of Defense to redefine the boundaries of collaboration so they can innovate faster. Anark’s content collaboration platform for manufacturers eliminates collaboration friction and hidden costs with product data, insights, and collaboration that meet people where they work. As a result, product data becomes accessible, actionable, and synchronized with version-controlled CAD, PDM, PLM and other product development “sources of truth.” When everyone can communicate and collaborate without compromise, manufacturers and their suppliers reduce errors, scrap, rework, and delivery risk while producing higher-quality products and services.