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Maxus walks away with agency of the year award, 40 metals at Big Bang Awards 2012
BANGALORE: Maxus had a double whammy at the Advertising Club Bangalore‘s Big Bang Awards last weekend – it won the Media Agency of the year and the Media Campaign of the year.
The agency in all bagged 40 metals, 13 each of Gold and Silver and 14 Bronze for work done for its clients, Vodafone, Perfetti van mille, Nokia India, Titan HTSE, Tanishq, etc., while DDB Mudra had a haul of 25 metals.
Titan Industries was adjudged the Client of the Year, besides which it also won the Ayaz Peerbhoy memorial trophy for the Multi-Media campaign of the year for its Titan TS campaign.
Stark Communications Trivandrum / Bangalore bagged the Agency of the year award for the second year in a row for its campaigns for Malayala Manorama, Kerala Tourism, Karnataka Tourism and other clients.
Jasison Antony of Stark Communications, Trivandrum won the Art Director of the Year award while Shelton Pinheiro of Stark Communications won the Copy writer of the Year, to add to Stark‘s haul of metals
DDB Mudra had a haul of 25 metals.
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.
