Kanthi Santhikumar
Kanthi Santhikumar is an accomplished product leader with more than fifteen years of experience spanning ad monetization, e-commerce, and digital innovation. She is currently the Director of Product Management at Meta (formerly Facebook) for Lead Generation Ads and Business AI solutions. In this role, she leads product strategy and development within the Ads and Monetization organization, driving initiatives that enhance advertiser performance, and elevates user and business outcomes.
Before joining Meta, Kanthi held pivotal roles at Walmart Labs and Microsoft, where she focused on advancing e-commerce growth and platform innovation. At Walmart Labs, she played a key role in enhancing digital shopping experiences through personalization, operational efficiency, and scalable product systems. At Microsoft, she contributed to the early evolution of commerce solutions in the educational space that strengthened the company’s digital ecosystem. Collectively, these experiences have shaped her ability to connect business vision with technical execution in fast-moving, customer-focused industries.
Kanthi holds an MBA from the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business and a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from India combining a strong technical foundation with strategic and business leadership.