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B.A.G. appoints Rajiv Mishra as iSomes director
MUMBAI: B.A.G. Films Ltd has appointed Rajiv Mishra as the director of International School of Media and Entertainment Studies (iSomes), based at Noida.
Somes is promoted by Anurradha Prasad’s B.A.G Films in collaboration with the School of Journalism, University of Missouri, USA.
Mishra will also spearhead B.A.G. Films’ new media business (mobile value added) initiatives.
He brings to the company and iSomes over 16 year of experience of in the field of media. Some of his earlier assignments include working for Digital Media Entertainment Inc as senior vice president programming; Reliance Infocomm LTD as general manager; TV Asia as senior vice president; Star TV (DTH) as senior manager and project head both for the Observer Network (FM Radio initiative) and Jain TV for DTH.
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.
