Our TEam
At Exponential Destiny one of our key ingredients that we feel is most effective for serving our purpose and mission is the peer-to-peer mentorship, empathy, and relatability that our core team has with the communities we serve. The majority of our founding leadership team are youth leaders from similar low-income and marginalized communities (e.g., south-central Los Angeles) and/or have worked to serve these communities for years.
Therefore, when we collaborate with a school or engage with an impact-organization that is doing outreach with similar communities, the youth and even adult learners, as well as local educators and administrators, express a level of increased trust considering their confidence in knowing we understand their broader context and thus have insights on how best to optimize this emerging technology to achieve benefits for them and their community. We also find it highly effective for a peer to be teaching a peer, i.e., “I was in your shoes in high school not too long ago, and now look at me! I was able to upskill myself into learning this new emerging technology and apply it to help my school and other organizations… and so can you! I will show you how!”.
For more on how this founding team evolved to form Exponential Destiny, please review our Origins & History story
The Exponential Destiny Leadership Team (Past & Present)
Marcus Shingles
FOUNDER & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
2019 – Current
PREVIOUS "PHASE 1" LEADERSHIP TEAM
From 2022 to 2025 the focus (Phase 1) of the Exponential Destiny organization was primarily on the Los Angeles community and public school system, and concentrated on exploring “Immersive & Experiential” methods of learning and education using virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR/XR) technologies. The original founding group (above) of “Phase 1” leaders were predominantly from the Los Angeles area, and were the original “mentees” who grew into leadership roles to assume responsibility for this initial “Phase 1” of Exponential Destiny,
New "Phase 2" Leadership Team
In 2025 the organization transitioned into its next phase (Phase 2) and strategically shifted to support a new group of “mentees” to coach and develop, focused on new global geographies, and new society priorites. In this new phase starting in 2026, Exponential Destiny’s focus is specifically concentrated on how to prepare society for the impact of AGI/ASI on individuals and their communities. There is a new “Phase 2” leadership team that is supporting the Exponential Destiny initiatives for this revised focus starting in 2026. (bios to be posted).
MARCUS SHINGLES
CO-FOUNDER & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Marcus is the co-Founder and CEO of Exponential Destiny. Marcus met his co-founder and the leadership team at Exponential Destiny when they were students still in high school as part of an initiative he championed when “adopting” a south-central Los Angeles public high school to establish a new curriculum to teach “exponential entrepreneurship” in 2015 (see: https://www.laschoolreport.com/pilot-program-at-nava-prep-robotics-drones-and-entrepreneurship/).
Marcus has a passion for mentoring youth leaders who show potential for growth, particularly individuals who are overcoming challenges within marginalized and under-served communities and education systems. As a mentor, he brings his knowledge and insights from his decades of work in industry; Marcus was previously the CEO of the XPRIZE foundation, a non-profit and the global leader in prize and crowdsourcing models for innovation and technology breakthroughs used to solve humanity’s grandest challenges. In addition, Marcus comes from the Management Consulting industry, where he was a Partner at Deloitte and Bain Consulting as a leader in the technology and innovation practices. Most recently, Marcus was the Chief Innovation Officer at an international development firm, where he was leading a global team on an initiative to design and build a new future urban community/”smart-city” on over 7,000 acres in northern Thailand.
Marcus’s expertise in innovation and technology has been featured on leading broadcasts and publications. He is an Advisory Board member of Stanford University’s “Disruptive Technology & Digital Cities” Program, and is also currently a member of the World Economic Forum- Expert Network, focused on “4th Industrial Revolution”. He also serves on the board and/or is an advisor to several non-profits focused on education for low income and underserved communities.
Marcus grew up in the Midwest (Michigan, Chicago), resided in California for many years, and now resides in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He has an amazing daughter and a son, both out of college and exploring their destinies.
OUR NETWORK OF LEAD MENTORS
As we do projects with organizations, we leverage our global network of mentors; individuals we have help train and upskill into “Metaverse Entrepreneurs”. We have mentors from dozens of countries (through our work with the United Nations ITU agency on the “Metaverse for SDG Global Prize & VR Competition”), including a special group of young individuals from Africa who help lead our efforts with the ecosystem in their countries.
OHIREMA OJEHOMON
Lagos, Nigeria
Muhammad Tajudeen
Lagos, Nigeria
Adeola Aderounmu
Lagos, Nigeria
OHIREMA OJEHOMON
Degree: Bsc computer science, Diploma Software Engineering
A visionary and a pioneer who loves to challenge myself and discover new possibilities. I am passionate about virtual reality because it gives me the freedom to create and experience anything I can imagine. I am always curious and eager to learn from others and share my insights. I am not afraid to experiment and push the boundaries of what is possible. I am a leader and an innovator who inspires others with my enthusiasm and creativity. I am a virtual reality enthusiast who lives in the future.
Muhammad Tajudeen
Adeola Aderounmu
A graduate of Ekiti State University, Nigeria, with a degree in English Language (BA.ed). Diploma certificates in UI/UX design, Spatial Design and Interaction (WebXR).
I love working with creative technologies, which is why I am drawn to Virtual Reality – when wielded properly, VR has the power to fundamentally change every aspect of the society, positively. My passion for technology trends and devices fuels my creativity for user friendly interfaces, hence I’m currently freelancing as a UI/UX and XR designer.
Oluwabunmi Borokinni
Abuja, Nigeria
Oluwabunmi Borokinni
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