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Tom Andrus named chief digital officer at Prostate Cancer Foundation

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TOM ANDRUS was named chief digital officer and executive vice president of the Prostate Cancer Foundation.

Most recently, Andrus was general manager and senior vice president of AXS.com, a division of AEG, building a new ticketing company. Previously, he was senior vice president of product at MySpace, where he led the product, design, mobile, and search businesses.

Prior to joining MySpace, Andrus spent eight years at EarthLink where he created the company’s product management team, led business development, and established new divisions, launching the wireless, voice, cable and value-added services business units. He also led the Utilities product team at Symantec/Norton, and was one of the founding employees of Fitnesoft, a health management software company.

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