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Pamela Levine is HBO US EVP, marketing
MUMBAI: Pamela Levine will join US broadcaster HBO as executive VP of marketing and will report to co-president Eric Kessler.
Levine will be responsible for overseeing ad campaigns for all programming, providing strategic marketing direction for HBO and Cinemax as well as guiding digital platforms and retail marketing efforts for the company. She will start in her new position on 15 November working out of HBO‘s headquarters based in New York.
Kessler said, “We use event marketing strategies often employed in the theatrical arena to launch most of our series so Pam‘s background makes her an ideal choice for this position. HBO‘s programming touches every genre and Pam has experience with all of them. She will bring an exciting new perspective as well as an appreciation for the unique nature of our brand and business model.”
Levine comes to HBO with 16 years of experience at Twentieth Century Fox, where she spent the last nine years as co-president of Domestic Theatrical Marketing, responsible for overall branding, media strategy and campaign strategy. She jointly led marketing for over 140 movies, playing an integral role in helping to craft upfront marketing strategies for all of the studio‘s releases, including creating and leading campaigns as diverse as ‘The Devil Wears Prada‘, ‘Walk The Line‘, ‘Marley And Me‘, ‘Taken‘ and ‘Avatar‘, the highest grossing movie of all time.
Levine has experience in launching, building and managing blockbuster franchises for films such as X-Men, Ice Age and Night At The Museum. She also has expertise in managing all areas of traditional media, promotion as well as content integration and digital/mobile.
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.
