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Nisha Singhania quits Saatchi to launch new agency with Shashtry
MUMBAI: Saatchi & Saatchi Mumbai general manager Nisha Singhania has decided to move on.
Singhania‘s resignation announcement comes close on the heels of the resignation of Saatchi & Saatchi CCO Ramanuj Shastry.
Singhania is partnering Shastry in launching a new creative agency in April. The name of the agency is still not announced. Both Singhania and Shastry are still serving their notice periods at Saatchi.
Since Shastry has been into creative and strategy planning, he will be heading the creative functions of the new agency while Singhania who has always been on business side will take care of that operation at their yet to be launched agency.
Singhania has over 15 years of experience in the advertising business. Prior to joining Saatchi & Saatchi in April 2011, she had worked with agencies like Rediffusion DYR, Grey Worldwide, Leo Burnett and Ambience Publicis.
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.
