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Nilesh Vaidya moves from Euro RSCG to join Network Advertising
MUMBAI: A month before he could complete five years of his service at Euro RSCG India, former executive creative director Nilesh Vaidya has quit the organization and will join Network Advertising as executive creative director from 4 April.
He will be reporting to managing director Vinod Nair. Vaidya, who was executive creative director at Euro RSCG India, had a stint with Network Advertising earlier.
Says Vaidya, “Network Advertising has been doing pretty well. As a very good opportunity came up at this point, I have decided to join them.”
Vaidya began his career in 1995 with Spear Advertising. He joined Euro as creative director and then moved up to become executive creative director and was also promoted to head the creative function in Mumbai, in 2009.
Besides Network Advertising and Euro RSCG, he has also worked with agencies like Lowe Lintas and Triton Communications.
At Euro RSCG, Vaidya has worked with significant campaigns on brands such as Dainik Bhaskar (Zid Karo campaign), HDFC Bank and Bharat Petroleum.
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.
