Meta appoints Dhruv Vohra to lead Southeast Asia business as AI and chat commerce reshape online retail

e27 - Oct 1, 2026

Meta has appointed Dhruv Vohra as Managing Director of its Global Business Group in Southeast Asia, putting a longtime regional executive in charge of one of the company’s most commercially important and behaviourally complex markets. Based in the region, Vohra will oversee Meta’s commercial strategy across Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. He […] The post Meta appoints Dhruv Vohra to lead Southeast Asia business as AI and chat commerce reshape online retail appeared first on e27.

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