Meta Appoints Kenyan Kendi Ntwiga as Global Head of Misrepresentation

Kenyan IT business leader Kendi Ntwiga has been appointed the Global Head of Misrepresentation at Meta based in Ireland.

Kendi assumed the role last month after leaving American tech giant Microsoft where she served as the Country Manager for Kenya since January 2020,

Her new role involves leading Meta’s Misrepresentation team under community products in global operations to drive the operational protocol to scale the organization’s enforcement of the community standards. 

She will work directly with cross-functional teams in Engineering and Product Development as well as other teams within Global Operations to scale projects from inception to launch.

Kendi has over 16 years’ experience crafting, leading, and implementing business strategies for tech organizations in the Sub-Sahara Africa region having worked for high tech global companies HP, Oracle, Intel, and Check Point.

She is also a champion in community services and was also recognized as an Emerging Leader in Innovation and Entrepreneurship by the US government through the TechWomen program.  

Kendi is the founder of She-Goes-Tech, an initiative that mentors young girls and women to take up STEM courses and remain in STEM careers. In 2019, she was named Top 40 under 40 woman leaders in Kenya.

She studied Computer Science and has a degree in International Business Management. She is also a Santander African Women Foundation Fellow, having studied entrepreneurial leadership at Babson College, USA.