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5 Things You Need to Know About New Meta India Head Sandhya Devanathan

First Published: 18th November, 2022 17:28 IST

Devanathan’s India stint will begin from January 1. She is currently located in Singapore

Facebook’s parent company Meta has appointed Sandhya Devanathan as the new head of its India business after Ajit Mohan resigned couple of weeks back. On Thursday, Meta announced it has appointed Devanathan as the Vice President of its India unit, a role in which she will head the company’s business in the country. Her stint as the Vice President of Meta India will begin on January 1.
Here is all you need to know about Sandhya Devanathan:

  • She joined Meta (then known as Facebook) in January 2016, as Group Director, SEA – Ecommerce, Travel, and FinServ, in Singapore. In August, she became the tech giant’s Managing Director for Singapore, and Business Head for Vietnam.
  • She is also its Vice President for Gaming in the Asia-Pacific region, her current post which she assumed in April 2020.
  • Devanathan also serves, or has served, as board member of several organisations. These include Pepper Financial Services Group, National Library Board (Singapore), Singapore Management University, Ministry of Information and Communications (Singapore), and Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society.
  • Her previous employers are Citigroup, and Standard Chartered respectively. With Citi, she worked in various positions from May 2000 to December 2009, while she worked with Standard Chartered from December 2009 to December 2015.
  • She did her B. Tech in Chemical Engineering from Andhra University (1994-1998), followed by MBA Delhi University (1998-2000). In 2014, she went to University of Oxford for a course in leadership.

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