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Goafest “CREATIVE ABBY” Jury Chairs announced for Film, Digital and Publisher Verticals
Mumbai, 7th March, 2016: The Goafest Creative Abbys, the highly coveted advertising awards that recognize the best in advertising and marketing, is all set to kick start the jury deliberation process. The Awards Governing Council of Goafest 2016 has announced the Jury Chairs of Film, Digital and Publisher Verticals. Agnello Dias, Chief Creative Officer of Taproot Dentsu Private will chair the Film Jury of Creative Abby, Karl Gomes, Chief Fanatic at Fanatics will chair the Digital jury and Mitrajit Bhattacharya, President& Publisher of the Chitralekha group will chair the jury for the Publisher Vertical.
Jury Chair of the Film Category Agnello Dias Agnello Dias, fondly called Aggie amongst his peers is reckoned in the advertising community as a creative powerhouse. Dias is credited with catapulting India into the Global Advertising map by winning India’s very first Grand Prix and Titanium/Integrated Lion at Cannes. He has also won various other awards like the double Grand Prix at Asia’s Media Spikes Awards for his landmark and inspiring “Teach India” campaign. His work has been featured across awards books for The One Show, the Clio Awards and Cannes Lions, D&AD, AdFest, New York Festival, and Media Spikes among others.
The Jury Chairs for other Creative Abby verticals will be announced shortly.
Presented by the Advertising Club and AAAI the Goafest ABBYs 2016 will once again see the entire advertising and marketing fraternity come together in Goa from 7th April, 2016 to 9th April 2016 at The Grand Hyatt, Bambolim, North Goa.
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.
