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Kishore Tadepalli to head JWT Mumbai after Rajesh Gangwani announces exit
MUMBAI: J Walter Thompson India has announced senior leadership changes. With Rajesh Gangwani, head of JWT Mumbai moving out to explore other avenues, Kishore Tadepalli will take over as the head of JWT Mumbai.
Kishore has around three decades of experience in advertising and marketing communications and is currently the senior vice president and managing partner of JWT Bengaluru. Under his leadership, JWT Bengaluru has shown remarkable growth and has produced some of the best work. A Thompsonite at heart, he has spent over 17 years with the agency and over the years, he has worked on a multitude of brands across categories in addition to leading large teams successfully. Having worked in JWT Mumbai in an earlier role, he has a deep understanding of the market, clients and their business challenges.
Commenting on Kishore Tadepalli, J. Walter Thompson CEO Tarun Rai says, “Kishore has been leading our office in Bengaluru for the past couple of years. Under his watch the office has shown aggressive growth in addition to building new capabilities. Kishore is no stranger to Mumbai having lived and worked here most of his life. He is looking forward to his new role and I am confident that he will contribute significantly both to our clients as well to JWT Mumbai”
Kundan Joshee takes over from Kishore as the head of JWT Bengaluru. This is a ‘Homecoming’ for Kundan having spent around 5 years at JWT Delhi in an earlier stint. He brings around 20+ years of experience as a Marketing and Communications professional having worked both at agencies as well as a client. In his long career he has worked on brands like Samsung, Pepsi, Slice, Tropicana, Aquafina, Zee TV, Vodafone, Maruti Suzuki, Whirlpool, Sony, National Geographic, Fox Life, Apollo Munich to name a few. He joins from Cheil Worldwide.
The changes come into effect from October 15, 2018.
Tarun Rai adds, “Rajesh has been a ‘lifer’ at JWT, having started his career with us in 1991 at our Mumbai office. He grew through the ranks and got the opportunity to head our Bengaluru office in 2008 and was given the additional responsibility of Chennai in 2011. He came to head Mumbai in 2014. Under his leadership, JWT Mumbai has diversified its capabilities and built a very strong team. The office has shown strong growth since he took over. Rajesh has had an excellent career with us and I thank him for his contribution to the agency over the years and wish him the very best for the future.”
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.
