OpenAI Hires Meta VP Devanathan to Lead Southeast Asia and Australia Expansion

OpenAI has hired Sandhya Devanathan, Meta's VP for India and Southeast Asia, as its senior-most leader for Southeast Asia and Australia, starting October. Based in Singapore, she will oversee consumer growth, enterprise adoption, partnerships, regulatory engagement, and operations — a full-stack regional remit echoing how Meta, Google, and Amazon structured their own international expansions.