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Charanjeett Singh Arora quits Kinetic India
NEW DELHI: GroupM-owned outdoor agency, Kinetic India co-chief executive officer (CEO) Charanjeet Singh Arora has resigned from his position. He is currently serving his notice period and has confirmed the exit to Indiantelevision.com.
He was responsible for driving team transformations spanning media, office automation, and logistics. Prior to Kinetic India, Arora was working at DAN as a VP for nearly two years.
Arora joined Kinetic India in 2017 as senior VP and was elevated to the position of co-CEO of the agency along with Rachana Lokhande in 2018. The latter also resigned a couple of months ago. In 2018, they replaced Suresh Balakrishna former CEO of Kinetic India.
Recently, GroupM has given the responsibility of Kinetic India to Ajay Mehta and elevated him as MD cinema (ITV) and OOH (Kinetic).
Arora has over 25 years of experience and has worked across brands, television networks and agencies including DHL, Dentsu Aegis Network, Star India, BCCL, Sahara, Big FM, IPG, RBNL, and Rapport.
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.
