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Humsa Dhir signs off from Sony after a decade of scripting its story
MUMBAI: Every great story needs a strong narrator and for Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI), that voice has been Humsa Dhir for the last 10 years. Now, after an extraordinary decade as Senior vice president and head of corporate communications, she is bidding farewell to the network she helped define.
Joining SPNI in 2015, Dhir steered the company’s reputation through broadcast, digital, and sports ventures, shaping how the brand was seen and understood. From deft crisis management to bold corporate storytelling, her tenure became the playbook for communications done with both strategy and sensitivity.
Her influence stretched far beyond press releases. She chaired the organisation’s Anti-Sexual Harassment Committee for two terms, established social media governance frameworks, and championed initiatives such as the award-winning Go-Beyond Podcast, which won praise for reinventing corporate storytelling.
Across media, energy, manufacturing, and automotive sectors, Dhir’s broader career has seen her advise CXOs and boards across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East on trust, change, and long-term value creation. At Sony, those skills translated into campaigns that resonated, and a reputation that endured.
“Humsa has been an exceptional custodian of SPNI’s reputation and values,” said SPNI CHRO Manu Wadhwa hailing her ability to craft compelling narratives while building trust with stakeholders. “We will truly miss her insight, her partnership, and the calm confidence she always brought to the table.”
Reflecting on her own journey, Dhir called the role “a privilege” and “a decade of growth,” noting that it gave her opportunities to blend strategy with sensitivity while building a trusted communications function. “As I close this chapter, I do so with deep gratitude and a clear sense of readiness to take this experience into new environments,” she said, hinting at broader mandates ahead.
As she steps away, Sony loses its voice behind the curtain, the calm strategist who ensured its stories found the right tone at the right time. But for Dhir, the next chapter promises new audiences, bigger stages, and fresh scripts waiting to be written.
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.
