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Allied Blenders & Distillers appoints Anupam Bokey as CMO
NEW DELHI: Allied Blenders & Distillers (ABD) has appointed Anupam Bokey as the new chief marketing officer (CMO).
Bikram Basu, who was COO of the company has resigned after five and a half years.
Bokey will be responsible for leading marketing strategy and brand growth.
Prior to this, he was working as a CMO at RP-Sanjeev Goenka Group, and played an important role for the launch of Too Yumm! healthy snacks as well in the market.
He has also worked for more than 17 years with Unilever, holding various marketing leadership roles in India, UK, and Thailand. In his career, he had also worked with plethora of brands like Dove, Sunlight, Clinic Plus, Clear, Lifebuoy, Vaseline, Pepsodent, Huggies and Pureit.
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.
