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Archana Vohra moves on from Meta India
Mumbai: Archana Vohra, who was looking after Meta India’s SMB (small and medium-sized business) portfolio, has called it a day.
Since January 2019, she held the post of director of global business group – mid market and small business at Meta India.
As per reports, she is ready to start her new innings soon.
As per her LinkedIn profile, her portfolio at Meta included account management, business development, agency sales, and program management across Instagram, FB, and Whatsapp. She was responsible for driving the majority of the monetization across all business verticals spanning emerging and mature clients for Meta in India.
With about 25 years of tech industry experience, Vohra has worked with Amazon and Times Internet previously.
Prior to this development, significant executives like director of marketing Avinash Pant, director of media partnerships Saket Jha Saurabh and director Amrita Mukherjee have been laid off from Meta.
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OpenAI’s Stargate lead Peter Hoeschele exits with two senior leaders
Trio behind compute push set to join new startup amid leadership reshuffle
SAN FRANCISCO: Peter Hoeschele, a key figure behind OpenAI’s early Stargate data centre initiative, has exited the company, according to a report by The Information.
The departure is part of a broader leadership shift, with two other senior executives, Shamez Hemani and Anuj Saharan, also set to leave in the coming days. All three are expected to join the same new startup, although details about the venture remain under wraps.
The trio played a central role in OpenAI’s Stargate effort, an initiative aimed at building large-scale data centre capacity in-house to reduce reliance on external infrastructure providers. Their exits mark a notable moment for the company’s compute strategy as it continues to scale rapidly.
OpenAI spokesperson said in a statement to The Information, “We’re grateful for the contributions Peter, Shamez, and Anuj have made to OpenAI and wish them the very best in what comes next.” The company also pointed to the recent appointment of Sachin Katti to lead its industrial compute organisation, signalling continuity in its infrastructure roadmap.
OpenAI has indicated that it does not plan to directly replace Hoeschele’s role, suggesting a possible restructuring of responsibilities within the team.
As competition intensifies in the race to build next-generation AI systems, leadership changes in core infrastructure teams are likely to draw close attention. For now, the spotlight shifts to what this departing trio builds next, and how OpenAI adapts as it scales its ambitions.
