Shingy , né David Shingy , has forgo his role as digital prophet of AOL and Verizon Media , after 12 years with the company .
The anime - maned fantast harbinger the departure in aLinkedIn note . “ I have decided it ’s time to research a new path . ” Shingy wrote in the letter .
He state his longtime colleague , “ We remain friends and menage and that makes me gleam , ” and ended the letter , “ with mad respect . ”
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Shingy joined AOL as a marketing director in 2007 . In 2010 he was kick upstairs to vice president of marketing and media , and a year afterwards he transcend beyond the professional matrix to the role of digital prophesier — a position that he make himself and be until now .
It ’s possible no one really recognise what Shingy did as a digital oracle . In 2014 he distinguish theNew Yorkerthat his six - shape salary devote for him to watch “ the futurity take bod across the vast online landscape painting , ” tot up that , “ I fly all around the world and go to conference ” and “ I take heed to where culture medium is channelize and project out how our brands can win in that environment . ”
But one anecdote from that story painted a clearer pic of Shingy ’s role .
Next , Shingy stopped by the billet of Erika Nardini , the chief merchandising officer of AOL Advertising , and handed her an iPad Mini . “ want to show you a small brain breaking wind I had on the plane , ” he said . It was a animated cartoon he had drawn of a bear wearing zebra - print pants and a shirt covered in ones and nix .
“ make love it , know it , love it , ” Nardini said . “ I ’m thinking of the bears more as a metaphor . ”
“ A thousand per cent , ” Shingy said .
This week , Shingy ’s prophesy for AOL and its parent party Verizon has descend to an end . In anInstagram postabout his deviation , Shingy quote Emily Dickinson : “ I dwell in theory . ”
The soothsayer shared some hints about those possibilities in his farewell varsity letter , in which he write he plans to work on “ autonomously with marque to help them achieve optimum mien in the market . ”
Shingy will soon grace other companies with his follicle feeler that assemble transmissions from our corporate consciousness . AOL may be as good as idle but its Digital Prophet still brood in possibility .
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