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Tim Love announces retirement
MUMBAI: Omnicom Group has announced that its Asia Pacific/India/Middle East/Africa (APIMA) vice chairman and CEO Tim Love resumed his duties at the company‘s corporate headquarters in New York effective 1 January.
Omnicom also announced Love‘s intention to retire at the end of the first quarter.
Omnicom president and CEO John Wren said, “Tim has been an important part of our executive team, leading the current phase of our Asia Pacific expansion efforts. While Tim may be retiring from Omnicom, he will undoubtedly bring his passion for making a difference in the world to the next chapter of his life. We wish him well.”
“Tim leaves the region in excellent health. In the past decade, Omnicom has developed a truly world class management team across Asia Pacific resulting in solid growth, unparalleled creativity and effective marketing on behalf of our clients. This was recently reflected by over 30 Omnicom agencies winning a record number of awards, significantly outpacing the competition, at two of the most prestigious creative award shows in the region – Spikes Advertising Festival and Campaign Asia‘s Agency of the Year awards,” Wren added.
During his 40-year career in advertising and brand building, Love has held senior client relationships in the US and abroad. Prior to becoming vice chairman of Omnicom in 2006 he was president of Global Clients at Omnicom network TBWA Worldwide.
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.
