Sandhya Devanathan will be the new head of Meta India

Facebook's parent company Meta has appointed Sandhya Devanathan as the new head and vice president of its India business. Devanathan will assume her post on January 1, 2023. Reporting for Sandhya will be from Dan Neary, Meta's Vice President for the APAC region.
Devanathan has been with Meta since 2016 and has been helping the company grow its business in Singapore and Vietnam. Apart from this, she was also working on the company's e-commerce launch in South East Asia.
Sandhya is also currently an executive sponsor for Meta Women@APAC and serves as the global lead for the gaming industry Play Forward. In addition, he is also on the global board of Pepper Financial Services.
After completing engineering at Andhra University in 1998, Sandhya Devanathan did MBA from Delhi University. She went to Oxford University's Said Business School in 2014 for a course in leadership.
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