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Kyoorius unveils its jury and announces jury sessions for the 2016 Design Awards
MUMBAI: Kyoorius unveils its jury for the fourth edition of the Kyoorius Design Awards. The jury sessions will take place from September 02-04, 2016 at the école intuit.lab in Mumbai. Gabor Schreier, Executive Creative Director, Saffron Brand Consultants, will chair the jury at the Kyoorius Design Awards this year. He specialises in creative strategy, brand positioning and architecture, visual identity systems, branded environments, signing systems and sound branding. The Kyoorius Design Awards recognise, honour and award the most outstanding creative work in the Indian visual communications sphere.
This year, the Kyoorius Design Awards received a total of 468 entries across all categories, from design studios, advertising agencies, freelance designers, brand consultancies and corporate from across India. The Kyoorius Awards have a wide-ranging list of categories, planned to recognise individual components as well as entire campaigns and projects that exist on multiple platforms and channels. A specialist jury composed of the top creatives from across the world – will gather to review, discuss and elect the best of the best over three intensive days. All the voting is done in private and never by a show of hands.
Under the Kyoorius Design Awards, the jury also comprises of:
• Tnop Wangsillapakun, Founder & Design Director, TNOP Design
• Prasanna Sankhe, Co-Founder & Creative Head, Hyphen
• Sarita Sundar, Founder, Hanno
• Kurnal Rawat, Creative Director, Landor
• Katherina Tudball, Design Director, The Partners
• Ayaz Basrai, Co-Founder, The Busride Design Studio
Rajesh Kejriwal, Founder and CEO of Kyoorius said ‘With our latest edition of Kyoorius Design Awards, we are delighted with the quality and range of entries received. The jury – a mix of international and Indian experts – will have some tough choices to make over the next few days. Kyoorius has an Open jury policy and people from the media and industry are allowed to attend these sessions to interact with the jury and be inspired by the exceptional entries received this year”.
The Kyoorius Design Awards night will be the culmination of Kyoorius Designyatra and will be held on October 01, 2016 at the Fairmont Hotel, Jaipur, India. The Awards night will have a gathering of over 1100 people from the marketing and communication industry.
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.
