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Param Saikia quits iris to join JWT Malaysia as CEO
MUMBAI: Param Saikia is replacing Subhendu Mukherjee as CEO for JWT Malaysia and will be taking charge in January 2011.
Saikia confirmed about his new career movement to Indiantelevision.com. In his new role, he will be partnering with Edwin Leong, Deputy Chairman/ ECD.
This will be Saikia‘s second stint with JWT as he had started his career in the industry with JWT Delhi in 1987 as an associate account director.
Mukherjee, on the other hand, is relocating to JWT Indonesia as strategic planning director.
Earlier Saikia was working with iris Worldwide as CEO in India. He has also been on the executive committee of Grey, McCann, Euro RSCG and Publicis. He has dealt with clients such as Nestlé, Coca-Cola, HP, Intel, MasterCard, Perfetti, Bacardi GM, Gillette, and Sheraton.
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.
