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Kumar Suryavanshi joins L&K Saatchi and Saatchi as ECD
MUMBAI: Kumar Suryavanshi, erstwhile senior creative director, Ogilvy & Mather India, is moving on from the agency to join L&K Saatchi and Saatchi as executive creative director.
Suryavanshi will be reporting to L&K Saatchi and Saatchi chief creative officer Delna Sethna.
His known work includes Mahindra commercial range film Taqdeer Badal de, Cadbury Oreo, HDFC Life, Marico Nihar Shanti Amla, Parachute Men and the Dumb Charades Child Abuse film.
L&K Saatchi & Saatchi chief creative officer Delna Sethna says, “We’re very happy to have Kumar on board; his enthusiasm for his craft, I’m hoping, will spread infectiously through the agency.”
Suryavanshi adds, “I’m thrilled to join L&K Saatchi. It’s a very fertile place with a tremendous potential for cutting edge creative work. When I met Delna, I was very impressed with her vision for the company and I’m eagerly looking forward to working with her to create some really great campaigns across the region.”
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.
