Michael Seifert (programmer)

Michael Seifert
BornFebruary 1969 (age 55)
NationalityDanish
Alma materUniversity of Copenhagen
OccupationFormer CEO of Sitecore
Known forDikuMUD, Sitecore
Awards2013 IT-Prisen

Michael Seifert (born February 1969 in Copenhagen) is a Danish computer programmer, inventor,[1] businessman, and entrepreneur in the IT industry. He is co-developer of DikuMUD, a popular multiplayer text-based role-playing game codebase, and former chief executive officer of Sitecore, a global customer experience management software company, which he co-founded in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2001. In 2013 Seifert won Denmark's annual IT Prize (IT-Prisen) for lifetime achievement in the field of information technology.[2]

  1. ^ Seifert and Christensen, United States Patent 8,255,526, "A method for collecting human experience analytics data", August 2012
  2. ^ "IT superman wins Denmark's most important IT prize". Computerworld DK. 14 March 2013.