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Dentsu Aegis launches Amnet; ropes in Sumit Aggarwal as country head
MUMBAI: Dentsu Aegis Network has launched its digital trading desk – Amnet in India. Amnet, which will fuse the best demand-side platform (DSP) technology to buy highly targeted audience-specific digital media across display, mobile and video, will be headed by Sumit Aggarwal as country head.
As part of its offerings, Amnet’s services will be exclusive to Dentsu Aegis Network’s clients.
“For the first time in India, Dentsu Aegis Network clients will exclusively have access to programmatic buying at this scale and with such levels of sophistication. With market-leading agencies like iProspect, Isobar, Dentsu Webchutney and WATConsult in our group, we wanted our clients to get the best of global standards in this important area; hence, the decision to bring Amnet to India,” said Dentsu Aegis Network chairman and CEO South Asia Ashish Bhasin.
Based in Mumbai, Aggarwal will report to Bhasin. He earlier served as vice president monetisation for multi screen advertising platform at Reliance Jio. Prior to that, he led search, display ad sales and ad product teams at Yahoo! India.
Amnet will provide real-time insights through digital technology and Big Data gathering to help understand the consumers’ on-line behaviour. Digital footprints allow the right ads to be delivered to the right people, at the right time.
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.
