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Kavita Gadkari is Grey VP planning for Mumbai
MUMBAI: The marketing communication company Grey has roped in Kavita Gadkari as vice president, planning for the Mumbai office.
Gadkari joins Grey from Stellar Search in Dubai, where she was leading the startup. Prior to Stellar, she headed strategy and insights at Inca Tanvir Advertising in Sharjah, UAE.
“I am pleased to join Grey at this exciting stage in their growth. I am particularly looking forward to working with Bindu on a wide range of clients across industries. I am also excited to be back in advertising. The buzz beckoned me back to this big and not-so-bad world of advertising,” Gadkari said.
Grey Asia Pacific chief strategy officer Bindu Sethi added, “I am delighted to have Kavita join the planning team. With Kavita in Mumbai and Divyapratap Mehta in Delhi, I am looking forward to seeing great strategic insights leading to creating more famously effective advertising for our clients. Kavita‘s experience, accomplishments in business development as well as her people skills will add significant value to our clients businesses.”
She also has over 15 years of experience in planning at FCB Ulka, Mumbai where she worked on various accounts including Tata Motors, Amul, ITC, Wipro Consumer Products and Tata Internet Services.
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.
