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Arvind Sharma is AAAI president
MUMBAI: Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) has appointed Leo Burnett chairman and CEO of India subcontinent Arvind Sharma as president for the year 2012-2013 at its Annual General Body Meeting held today.
Draftfcb+Ulka Advertising executive director and CEO-Mumbai M G Parameswaran has been elected as the vice president.
Immediate past president, Interface Communications director Nagesh Alai will be the ex-officio member of the new AAAI Executive Committee.
The other elected members of the executive committee for the ensuing year are Fifth Estate Communications head Ganesh Baliga, Aegis Group chairman India and CEO South East Asia Ashish Bhasin, Publicis Communications South Asia CEO Nakul Chopra, Mogae Group executive director Tanya Goyal, Crayons Advertising chairman Kunal Lalani, Network Advertising MD Vinod Nair, Prem Associates Advertising and Marketing partner Pranav Premnarayen, Matrix Publicities and Media India’s Sridhar Ramasubramanian, Group M South Asia CEO Vikram Sakhuja, Contract Advertising CEO Umesh Shrikhande and RK Swamy BBDO chairman and MD Srinivasan K Swamy.
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.
