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Industry Moves: Tina Sharkey Leaves AOL; Joins BabyCenter As Chairman

By Rafat Ali - Tue 16 Jan 2007 09:58 PM PST

You’re reading it here first: Another senior AOL departure: Tina Sharkey, till recently the SVP of Instant Messaging & Social Media at AOL, and instrumental in developing AOL’s community strategy to a large extent, has left the company, and has joined Johnson & Johnson-owned online parenting info/resource site BabyCenter, as the chairman (bad choice of title, if you ask me). She will oversee all BabyCenter operations, including Babycenter.com and international sites in UK, Australia, Canada, Germany, and Sweden. She will also be heading the companion site ParentCenter.com, a resource site for parents of children ages 2 to 8.
Prior to AOL, she was one of the co-founders of iVillage.
This comes along with spate of other senior AOL departures over the last couple of months since Jon Miller was replaced as CEO.

Posted in: Companies, Time Warner, AOL, Industry Moves


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11 Responses:
  • From Jeremy Liew Wed 17 Jan 2007 12:24 AM

    Tina will be a real loss for AOL. She has been pushing the company towards social media since she got there over four years ago.

  • From Mike Jones Wed 17 Jan 2007 09:09 AM

    Congratulations Tina - you will do a wonderful job there! We all miss you!

  • From an aol employee Wed 17 Jan 2007 10:35 AM

    too bad… the glass ceiling won’t crack now. go white boys! go white boys!

  • From Jason Calacanis Wed 17 Jan 2007 10:48 AM

    Tina = Great

  • From TW Refugee Wed 17 Jan 2007 10:50 AM

    Another visionary bites the dust.  Pity.

  • From Brian Loube Wed 17 Jan 2007 12:10 PM

    You simply could not find a better executive for to fill job!  I just don’t know who’s luckier: BabyCenter, or the babies themselves…

  • From Marc Canter Thu 18 Jan 2007 11:47 AM

    Tina and Jim will surely be missed.

    Now we gotta just wait and see what happens next.  And meanwhile - congrats Tina.  Go make some babies - or at least be in charge of making babies.

  • From Mike Speiser Fri 19 Jan 2007 06:08 PM

    Looks like it’s time to buy J&J;stock.  Congratulations Tina!

  • From AOL Employee Sun 21 Jan 2007 11:11 AM

    Strange, this was announced internally several months ago.  She must not have been very important if no one posted about it until now.

  • From RIP Babycenter Fri 14 Mar 2008 06:37 AM

    Thanks Tina for totally screwing up what WAS the best parenting site on the web. Maya Mom’s format is AWFUL. See ya!

  • From A disappointed BBC user Sat 15 Mar 2008 08:35 PM

    You all can have Ms Sharkey back at AOL if you’d like her.  She’s done nothing but screw up what was a VERY helpful and informative site, that was working fine.  Everyone was happy.  However, since Ms Sharkey came over, many users are now leaving due to the changes she’s implemented.

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