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Per Pedersen has been appointed chairman of the Grey Global Creative Council
MUMBAI: After being with Grey for 25 years, Per Pedersen has been appointed chairman of the Grey Global Creative Council.
Pedersen is the co-founder of Uncle Grey in Denmark and served as chief creative officer of Grey Germany. Since 2010, he has been based in New York as deputy worldwide chief creative officer, prior to that he has served as global creative leader on Febreze.
Pedersen has helped oversee Grey’s senior creative leaders to identify creative opportunities, crafting smarter award submissions and ranking the quality of Grey’s work. In this role, Pedersen becomes the leading global creative evangelist, strengthening creative culture and the quality of work across the entire network.
He played an important role in achieving Grey’s best year ever at Cannes in 2015 with a watershed performance that brought home 113 Lions from 18 countries including a record 4 Grand Prix. He has led the award-winning “Breathe Happy” blindfold campaign and the Lion avalanche that made Grey New York the 2015 Cannes North American Network of the Year.
With 300 awards, including 43 Cannes Lions, Pedersen ranks among the most awarded creative people in the industry and has served on most award show juries from Cannes to the Clios.
MUMBAI: In India’s fast-moving payments race, Visa has just swiped in a new leader. The company has named Suresh Sethi as its India country head, marking a key leadership shift as it sharpens its focus on digital payments growth in the market. Sethi steps into the role following his recent exit from Protean eGov Technologies, where he served as chief executive officer. He succeeds Sandeep Ghosh, who has moved on after more than four years at Visa to pursue an external opportunity.
The appointment comes at a time when Visa is doubling down on its expansion strategy across India and the wider region, deepening partnerships and accelerating adoption in an increasingly competitive digital payments ecosystem.
Sethi brings with him a broad, cross-market perspective shaped by decades of experience across corporate banking, retail financial services, mobile money and large-scale government technology initiatives. He began his career at Citigroup, where he spent 14 years working across India, Africa, South America and the United States, focusing on transaction banking services within the corporate bank.
His appointment signals a blend of institutional experience and market familiarity qualities that could prove critical as Visa navigates a landscape where fintech innovation, regulatory evolution and consumer adoption are all accelerating at once.
As digital payments in India continue to scale rapidly, the leadership change underscores a simple reality, in a market where every tap, scan and swipe counts, who leads the charge can matter just as much as the technology itself.
