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Mindshare appoints Sushanto Biswas as partner – client leadership
MUMBAI: GroupM’s flagship media agency, Mindshare has announced appointment of Sushanto Biswas as partner – client leadership.
Based out of Delhi, Biswas will be heading the Ford team at Mindshare India. He joins Mindshare from MPG and has 13 years of experience in the media industry working with agencies such as Universal McCann.
During this time, Biswas has worked across a gamut of clients including HP, British Airways, Maruti, LVMH, Videocon, MTS and Reckitt Benkiser. He has also worked on the client side at LG and with Universal McCann on Gillette, Goodyear, Panasonic, MasterCard, GM and Microsoft.
Biswas said, “It is very exciting and at the same time very challenging to be part of the fastest growing agency in India. Auto as a category has always been a passion and I have had experience of the category having worked on General Motors and Maruti previously. Ford has ambitious plans for the country over the next 3-4 years and I see this as a great challenge to craft media solutions in a hyper competitive market place.”
Mindshare South Asia leader R Gowthaman added, “Sushanto‘s wealth of client and business experience makes him a vital asset to the Mindshare team. His in-depth understanding of behavior and trends in the media industry will add incredible value to our clients.”
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.
