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Neel Pandya to lead ISA media forum
New Delhi: Indian Society of Advertisers (ISA) has roped in Neel Pandya to lead its media forum. Pandya is also serving as the L’Oreal India national media and digital head.
The development was announced in a meeting of the media forum held on 4 November 2020.
ISA chairman, CEO, secretary-general and other members of the forum welcomed Neel to this role.
“We are confident that Neel from his varied experience across sectors and functions would add considerable value through the media forum to the ISA,” it said in a statement.
The ISA media forum meets periodically to take stock of and deliberate on industry developments that affect advertisers.
Pandya has over 13 years of experience and has worked across several brands and agencies including – Vodafone, GroupM, TAM, Future Group, and HDFC Bank. He joined L’Oreal India in 2017.
He was a speaker at the 2019 edition of indiantelevision.com’s BrandVid Summit.
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.
