Meta’s vice president for India and Southeast Asia, Sandhya Devanathan, is leaving after a decade to join OpenAI in Singapore, where she will oversee consumer growth, enterprise adoption, partnerships, regulation and operations. Her move follows earlier hiring of former Uber India chief Prabhjeet Singh as OpenAI’s India head, reinforcing the company’s Asia-Pacific push, with new offices opened in Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Sydney and Delhi over the last two years. Devanathan’s exit comes as Meta faces rising pressure in India over online safety, mistaken restriction of a post by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and concerns about child sexual abuse material discovered in Instagram advertisements.
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