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Key leadership changes at Mindshare
MUMBAI: Mindshare announced today a series of management changes and key appointments to strengthen the media agency and position it for long-term success.
M Parthasarathy, currently the Leader-Business Planning, will now head the Client Leadership team.
Alok Sinha will get to oversee Strategy enabling ‘no-line’ thinking across India. Sandeep Pandey, on the other hand, will spearhead Consulting & Intelligence which involves analytics and modeling for better ROMI (Return on Marketing investment).
Anita Karnik will continue to handle Branded Entertainment and Activation. Jai Lala and Ashok Lalla will continue in their current roles managing Exchange and Digital.
Mindshare South Asia leader Ravi Rao said, “With this infusion of senior talent and expertise, I am looking forward to beginning the year with the Mindshare mantra: Original thinking that brings in thought leadership, innovation that aids in brand growth. Fueled by great ideas, intelligence and analytics, the focus will be on growing our existing clients behind a strong strategy and thrust in digital.”
The new appointments also include Rahul Thappa who comes in to manage North and rest of Mindshare South Asia. He has been entrusted with business operations in Pakistan, Srilanka and Bangladesh. He is back at Mindshare fold after a span of two years from his last position as MD of Mindshare Malaysia and the COO of Mail today.
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.
