Sandhya Devanathan is an Indian business executive and former banker who is known for being the Vice President of Meta India, the parent company of Facebook.She grew up in a middle-class family in Andhra Pradesh.In her college days, she actively took part in tech fests, elocution, and debate competitions. Sandhya Devnathan during a group picture of the students and faculty members of the Department of Chemical Engineering of Andhra University.In 2000, Sandhya joined Citibank, an American multinational investment bank and financial services corporation, as a Webmaster & Product Manager of Citibank online and e-business team.After three years, she started working as Product Head of Personal Loans in the company.In 2005, she got selected for the excel leadership program of the company and moved to the Philippines to work as the Assistant Vice President of Portfolio Management & Customer Retention of credit cards.The following year, Devanathan moved to the United States to work as the Vice President of the offshore segment of customer franchise management. Sandhya Devanathan during a business meeting.In 2007, Sandhya was promoted to the position of the Director of the International Consumer Lending Group at Citi bank.A year later, she was elected as the Director of sales performance management at International Retail Bank. She worked in the position for a year and resigned from the firm in December 2009.In 2009, Sandhya joined Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore as the Global Head of cross-selling and pricing.