Current Affairs - Persons - Discussion

Kirthiga Reddy, the former managing director of Facebook India, has joined SoftBank as its first venture partner at its $100 billion Vision Fund. She is the first women coming on board in a company where the rest are all men. Reddy was Facebook's first employee in India and served as the managing director for India and South Asia market until 2016, following which she relocated to the company's US headquarters, serving as Managing Global Client Partner and Emerging Markets Lead.