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Kyoorius unveils its jury, Karen Welman to be foreman
MUMBAI: The jury for the fifth edition of the Kyoorius Design has been unveiled. The jury sessions will take place on 15 and 16 September, 2017 at the Ecole Intuit Lab in Mumbai. The Kyoorius Design Awards is the foremost awards for design and visual communication in India. All design work commercially released between 1 January 2016 and 31 March 2017 are eligible to be entered.
The Kyoorius Design Awards have a wide-ranging list of categories, planned to identify individual components as well as entire projects/campaigns that exist on various platforms and channels and aims to highlight, advertise and advocate good design, designers and design oriented companies in India. Kyoorius Design Awards receives entries from design studios, advertising agencies, freelance designers, brand consultancies as well as corporates from across India.
A specialist jury has been carefully selected comprising of the top designers from India and across the world. They will gather to review, debate and elect the best of the best over two intensive days. The jury will be chaired by award winning graphic designer and founding creative partner at Pearlfisher (London), Karen Welman along with some of the leading names in the advertising and design space.
The other jury members for Kyoorius Design Awards 2017 are:
• Leanne Kitchen, Designer – Johnson Banks
• Darshan Gandhi, Head Design – Godrej Consumer Products Limited
• Scott Lambert, Design Director – The Partners | Founder – The Typefaces
• Ambrish Arora, Founding Principal – Studio Lotus
• Jay Dutta, SVP of UX Design – MMYT | Advisor – SAIF Partners
• Neha Tulsia, Founder & Creative Director – NH1 Design
Kyoorius CEO Rajesh Kejriwal said: “These awards are an initiative to acknowledge and reward the true talent in the field of creativity, innovation and design. It’s an honour to have such highly acclaimed jury on board this year. Our jury members represent the best talent in the industry, across a range of creative disciplines to recognise exceptional work in the design industry.”
The Kyoorius Design Awards night will be the culmination of Kyoorius Designyatra and will be held on 14 October, 2017, at the Grand Hyatt, Goa, India. The Awards night will have a gathering of over 1500 people from the design, advertising and marketing community.
Important dates
Submission deadline: 30 August, 2017
Deadline for postal entries: 4 September, 2017
Judging: September 15 & 16 in Mumbai
Awards Night: 14 October at Grand Hyatt, Goa
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.
