OpenAI hires Meta’s Sandhya Devanathan to lead Southeast Asia and Australia
THE SO WHAT
Putting a senior Meta operator over Southeast Asia and Australia signals OpenAI is treating the 600M+ person region as a core go-to-market theater, not an afterthought. If you sell AI into APAC, expect faster enterprise motion, more regulatory engagement, and rising customer expectations around native support.
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