Who is Sandhya Devanathan, the new VP of Meta India?

 Two weeks after Ajit Mohan‘s resignation from Meta caused a stir in business circles, the social media giant appointed Sandya Devanathan as the Vice President of its India operations. “Sandhya has a proven track record of scaling businesses, building exceptional and inclusive teams, driving product innovation and building strong partnerships,” Meta’s Chief Business Officer Marne Levine said, commenting on the appointment.

Who is Sandhya Devanathan

Devanathan graduated with a BTech degree from the Andhra University College of Engineering, Vishakhapatnam, in 1998, completed her MBA at the Faculty of Management Studies and attended a course in leadership from Said Business School, Oxford University. She began her career in 2000, as Webmaster & Product Manager, Citibank Online, e-Business.

Sandhya Devanathan, Vice President, Meta India

With an international career spanning over two decades, Sandhya Devanathan doesn’t come with the usual set of tech credentials. Instead, the graduate from the Faculty of Management Studies in New Delhi, Devanathan pivoted from banking to technology in 2015, after having spent nearly a decade at Citi and another six years with Standard Chartered Bank. In 2016, she joined Meta, going on to play a key role in building its presence in Singapore and Vietnam, apart from working on the company’s e-commerce initiatives in South East Asia.

Teething troubles

She calls the move one of the hardest things she’s ever done, in terms of learning how to adapt. The strict hierarchies of the banking sector gave way to a more egalitarian, empowered atmosphere, where the emphasis lay on having a “shared vision, purpose and sense of community,” she wrote, in a 2020 blog post for Meta Careers. “When it came to banking, I knew the industry really well. I knew about fintech, but Meta and the digital consumer tech landscape were brand new to me. I faced a steep learning curve managing teams that function very differently from traditional companies.”

In 2020, Devanathan moved to Indonesia, where she headed Meta’s gaming vertical in the A-Pac region and is the global lead for Play Forward, Meta’s bid to improve diversity in gaming. Soon afterwards, the pandemic hit and the job market, Devanathan recalls, was transformed. People started onboarding remotely and she had to come to terms with the process, on being unable to establish an in-person rapport with teammates and managers.


Source: https://www.globalindian.com/story/global-indian-exclusive/who-is-sandhya-devanathan-the-new-vp-of-meta-india/ 


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