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Helios Media appoints Raj Shrivastav as chief revenue officer
MUMBAI: Helios Media which completes 7 years of operations,has stepped up activities on its food focussed vertical Brand Chef. Brand Chef is India’s first Food Specialist Consulting and Communication Company that specialises in providing strategic business solutions to brands in Food Business. Helios Media continues to handle Food Food the lifestyle & food channel launched by Sanjeev Kapoor.
With this, Helios Media also announces appointment of Raj Shrivastav as Chief Revenue Officer.
Elaborating, Divya Radhakrishnan – Managing Director, Helios Media said “We are not in the Food Business, we are in the Business of Food. With our7 years of rich experience in engaging with major food brands across the country and providing them media agnostic solutions across platforms; we realised its right time to focus and purpose our attention on our food vertical entity – Brand Chef. We believe we are a bunch of passionate storytellers with food domain expertise providing smart business solutions and ideas to food clients” Divya adds, “We have created a proprietary business intelligence tool which takes into account different variables and provides product, brand & communication solutions to all clients. We have worked in the past with all Food Majors in the country from HUL, Nestle, Havells, Philips, MTR, Parag Foods, Haldiram and many more”.
Speaking on the new role, Raj said, “Our core belief is IDEA first, MEDIA next, Brand Chef is going to be India’s first &only Food Specialist company that provides domain expertise which includes Business Consulting, Product Enhancement, Marketing Solutions including Digital Engagements, Content IPs, Production, Influencer and Media collabs. We believe we cater to a LiTE audience- LIVE TO EAT AUDIENCE. Food needs to be seen as a medium by itself, as big as Bollywood and Cricket and we are going to evangelise that. We are launching Brand Chef – Digital, one of its kind food specialist digital agency focusing on delivering 3D’s i.e. Data, Design & Delivery solutions to every food brand in India. We will be commencing an in-depth food industry study called “FoodWise” with some leading media and expert panellists on food trends, consumer& market preferences to share our learnings and expertise with our clients and partners”. More of it on www.brandchef.in Helios Media has been operating intobusinesses like revenue monetisation, content syndication, content curation, and media engagements since 2011.
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.
