Jim Anderson is Vitrue’s Chief Product Officer. Anderson has nearly 20 years of experience and a successful track record of leading development teams to collaborate with sales, marketing, and other constituents to deliver successful consumer applications. At Vitrue, he guides the company’s software team through the rapid implementation of its next generation of products and services.
Prior to Joining Vitrue, Anderson spent nine years with EarthLink (formerly MindSpring), one of the nation’s leading Internet Service Providers. He helped the company grow from 250,000 subscribers to more than 5 million. His most recent role was Vice President of Product Development, and in that capacity he led a variety of application development, core infrastructure, QA, and other teams to develop many of EarthLink’s customer-facing applications: Web mail, account management, the personal support center, and the Total Access client software. He also maintained responsibility for EarthLink’s authentication and mail infrastructure.
While at EarthLink, Anderson also held VP of Broadband and Director of Marketing Programs positions. He led the launch of MindSpring’s consumer DSL product, a service that as part of EarthLink grew to over one million customers.
Prior to joining EarthLink, Jim spent eight years as an engineering consultant, working with the manufacturing arm of consumer brands such as Procter & Gamble and Georgia-Pacific. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering from Georgia Tech.