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Hakuhodo Percept appoints Jayanto Banerjee as national planning director
MUMBAI: Hakuhodo Percept has appointed Jayanto Banerjee as national planning director.
Banerjee will be working closely with agency leaders across all major brands and clients handled by the agency.
Based at the agency‘s Delhi office, he will be responsible for guiding the planning function, as well as spearheading “I-HPPL discovery”, the consumer knowledge and centre that focuses on understanding youth in India.
Hakuhodo Percept executive director Elvis Sequeira said, “At Hakuhodo Percept, we place huge emphasis on multi-talented, versatile professionals. And Banjo is a shining example of someone who can partner our clients brilliantly. Apart from his planning experience Banjo also brings with him the experience of heading agency offices, the experience of starting a digital and PR set up from scratch and the experience of having worked across five cities in India and Middle East. With Banjo‘s arrival and several key talented people in place, Hakuhodo Percept‘s transformation into a powerhouse of knowledge, strategy and creativity is now complete.”
Banerjee has over 19 years of experience in senior management, strategic planning and client servicing across Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Dubai and Muscat. He has been the regional planning director of Euro RSCG in the Middle East, and headed integrated agency offices in Dubai, Muscat and Delhi.
He started his career with Lintas in 1993. He has also worked with Euro RSCG and Bates 141 for FMCG, automotive, consumer durables, airline, banking, insurance, retail, technology, hospitality and pharmaceutical brands.
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.
