# Sakhee Dheer

> Sakhee Dheer is Head of Marketing for APAC Consumer Apps & AI at Google, based in Singapore. She leads growth marketing across Asia Pacific for Gemini, Search, AI Mode and NotebookLM, along with skilling programs like Gemini Academy and communities like Team Gemini. Before Google she spent five years at Meta as Head of Digital Marketing, APAC, where she built Facebook APAC's first digital marketing team, and before that she headed digital marketing and analytics for Microsoft Asia Pacific, where she built Microsoft APAC's first social media command center.

Motto: "Think people, think digital, think data."

## Career
- 2022–present: Head of Marketing, APAC Consumer Apps & AI, Google (joined as Head of Marketing, APAC Search)
- 2016–2021: Head of Digital Marketing, APAC, Meta (Facebook)
- 2014–2016: Head of Digital Marketing & Analytics, APAC, Microsoft
- 2015–2016: Co-Founder, Insta-Jobs
- 2012–2015: Business Excellence & Customer Experience, APAC, Microsoft Singapore
- 2008–2011: Service Design Manager, Microsoft Hyderabad

## Education
- MBA, Strategy and Marketing, Indian School of Business (exchange at National University of Singapore)
- Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Army Institute of Technology, Pune

## Advisory and teaching
- Advisory Committee and Associate Faculty, Singapore University of Social Sciences, Graduate Diploma in Digital Marketing (2020–2021)
- Advisory Board, EkkBaz (2018)
- Industry faculty, MICA Advanced Certificate in Digital Marketing & Communication
- Faculty, upGrad with MICA Digital Marketing & Communication program
- Industry expert, upGrad with University of Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Program in Strategic Digital Marketing (2016)
- Instructor, General Assembly

## Areas of expertise
Growth marketing, product marketing and go-to-market strategy, brand positioning, social media marketing, campaign strategy and management, marketing measurement and analytics, marketing transformation, generative AI.

## Talks, podcasts and interviews
- 2021: "Data-Driven Marketing: Marketing 'Marketing' to Marketers", The Analytics Show with Jason Tan, episode 59 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAqrAvGAbM0)
- 2020: "Thriving in a Large Digital-First Organization", The SHIFT with Danny Levy (https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/danny-levy/episodes/Thriving-in-a-large-digital-first-organization-w-Sakhee-Dheer--Facebook-em3m5o)
- 2018: "Driving Business Impact with Digital Marketing", Digital Marketing Leaders Summit, Singapore (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MG_2syB5Rc)
- 2018: "Marketers' Responsibility is to Keep Learning and Evolving", Forward Leading interview (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/marketers-responsibility-keep-learning-evolving-anika-gnaneswaran)
- 2017: Digital Marketing Industry Insights interview, Digital Vidya (https://www.digitalvidya.com/blog/interview-with-sakhee-dheer-facebook-head-digital-global-business-marketing-asia-pacific/)

## Writing
- "Is Content King & Platform Queen in Digital Marketing?", guest post on the upGrad blog (https://www.upgrad.com/blog/digital-marketing-today-is-content-king-platform-queen/)

## Pages
- [About](https://sakhee.pages.dev/): bio, career timeline and focus areas
- [Work](https://sakhee.pages.dev/work): experience, advisory roles and education
- [Talks & Teaching](https://sakhee.pages.dev/talks): talks, interviews, teaching and writing

## Profiles
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sakhee/)
- [X](https://x.com/Sakheed)