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Nikon to continue sponsorship of CNN’s ‘Human to Hero’ series
MUMBAI: Nikon has renewed multi-platform sponsorship deal with CNN International for its special series ‘Human to Hero‘ thereby building on the long standing partnership between CNN and Nikon involving TV, digital and on the ground events.
‘Human to Hero‘ was originally launched in January 2012 in the lead-up to the 2012 Olympic Games, and featured top athletes and the challenges they had to overcome to become champions. The series featured widely known athletes such as Tyson Gay, Nadia Comaneci and Veronica Campbell Brown.
Under the renewed multiplatform partnership with Nikon, ‘Human to Hero‘ will feature inspiring heroes from a wide variety of fields including sport, music, film, culture, arts and more.
The series will air as a weekly segment in ‘News Stream‘ and ‘Connect the World‘, beginning September 6th with a feature on Benjamin Grosvenor, the youngest British musician ever to be signed up by Decca Records and the first British pianist to sign to the label in almost 60 years.
The sponsorship includes regular digital coverage, with the series featured online at CNN.com Entertainment. A special Nikon Facebook fan page ‘Beautiful Dreamers‘ has also been launched, where the ‘Human to Hero‘ series will be featured along with a photo contest calling on people to submit photos of themselves striving to achieve their dreams.
“This renewal underscores the success of the series and our partnership with Nikon. We are delighted to be working with Nikon to now extend this quality series beyond the sports arena and share the stories of inspiring heroes from a range of fields,” said CNN APAC VP of News Advertising Sales William Hsu.
“We believe that everyone who pursues the challenge of chasing their dream is beautiful. CNN‘s ‘Human to Hero‘ also promotes this idea. We are very pleased to be continuing our partnership with CNN as it features a wider variety of heroes chasing their dreams,” said Nikon GM Corporate Branding Department, Corporate Planning Headquarters Maki Yoshida.
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.
