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BBDO India elevates Hemant Shringy to CCO
MUMBAI: BBDO India has promoted Hemant Shringy to the chief creative officer of its Mumbai office. Prior to the promotion, he was executive creative director. Shringy will report to BBDO India chairman and chief creative officer Josy Paul.
Shringy has been working with BBD for the past seven years. He had joined the agency in 2012 as creative director and later rose up the ranks becoming the executive creative director in 2015. He has worked on some of the most powerful and effective campaigns launched over the last few years, including Touch the Pickle for P&G’s Whisper brand, eBay’s Things Don’t Judge, the Kindness is Cashless work for Visa and IDEA’s Meri Real Life, and Ariel’s Share the Load.
Shringy has also received several accolades for his work. In 2017, he was named Creative Person of the Year for South Asia in Campaign Asia’s annual Agency of the Year awards. And just this year, he was named runner-up for Asia’s Emerging Creative Leader of the Year by Campaign Brief Asia. His work has been recognised at almost all international awards shows, winning Grand Prix’s and Golds at the very best creative events including Cannes Lions, AdFest, Spikes Asia, New York Festival, the Andy’s, APAC Effies and WARC. In addition, he was a crucial member of the team that received India’s very first White Pencil at the D&AD Impact Awards.
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.
