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Aspiring Minds appoints Havas Media as AoR
MUMBAI: After awarding its creative mandate to abm Communication earlier this week, employability solutions company Aspiring Minds has decided to go with Havas Media as its media agency on record.
Industry estimates peg the size of the account at Rs 200 million.
Aspiring Minds co-founder and chief executive officer Himanshu Aggarwal said, “We believe Havas Media, with their media skills and cross sector knowledge, passion for people and understanding of our customer both student and corporate, will be the right partners to help achieve our objectives in the marketplace in the long term.”
“The best students today need direction even after their degree in choosing the industry suited to their success and the employer needs his fit. Aspiring Minds has positioned itself strongly in the recruitment space and in getting jobseekers a job on merit. They are very activity focused and research based; and so are we, we look forward to working on this account,” said Anita Nayyar, Chief Executive Officer, Havas Media Group, India and South Asia.
Havas Media managing director Mohit Joshi said, “Education and employment fit is the need of the hour for India. Our mix of media and digital expertise in reaching a younger audience across India will certainly bring in the momentum. The team is smart, young and open to ideas so it will be an interesting association.”
With a management team from MIT, the IITs and IIMs, Aspiring Minds has enabled leading brands to improve the quality of talent they hire via the flagship employability assessment product named AMCAT. Adapted to meet requirements across sectors, candidates can seek a desired job and get feedback of their areas of strength and weakness with an analysis on their core skills and necessary improvement areas.
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.
