Brands
Radisson Hotels names Sakshi Dogra head of marketing South Asia
MUMBAI: Radisson Hotel Group has welcomed Sakshi Sehdev Dogra as its new director of area marketing and communications for South Asia, signalling a fresh chapter in the group’s regional growth story.
With over 20 years in hospitality sales, marketing, and brand communications, Sakshi has led multi-brand portfolios across India and Eurasia. At Radisson, she will steer integrated marketing and communications, blending brand storytelling, digital strategy, PR, loyalty programmes, and commercial performance.
Before joining Radisson, Sakshi headed sales and marketing for Wyndham Hotels and Resorts in Eurasia, overseeing 78 hotels and championing initiatives from destination weddings to data-driven growth campaigns. Her career also includes senior roles at Best Western, The Lalit Hotels, and Marriott India, giving her a broad and deep perspective on B2B, MICE, and national accounts.
Radisson Hotel Group managing director and COO for South Asia Nikhil Sharma said, “Sakshi brings a proven record of marketing leadership across leading hospitality brands. Her blend of creativity and measurable impact will amplify our presence and support our growth across South Asia.”
Sakshi commented, “I am thrilled to join Radisson Hotel Group at this exciting time. My goal is to create marketing and communications that combine creativity, digital excellence, and commercial sense to elevate our brand and connect with guests.”
Known for her collaborative leadership, Sakshi believes hospitality success lies in connecting heart and head, telling stories that move people while using data that moves performance, a philosophy that mirrors Radisson’s people-first approach.
Brands
Rakesh Menon joins Paytm as avp – lending
Fintech product leader takes on new role after building digital lending, payments and credit products across fintech ecosystem
MUMBAI: Rakesh Menon has joined Paytm as assistant vice president – lending, taking on a new role focused on strengthening the company’s lending and credit products.
Prior to this, Menon worked at Profectus Capital Pvt Ltd as chief manager – payments based financing and digital lending.
At Profectus, he designed and launched digital credit products for merchants with variable cash flows, including overdraft-linked and revenue-share lending models. He led end-to-end LOS–LMS API integrations with payment partners and aggregators, enabling real-time underwriting, disbursal and repayment workflows.
He also worked on funnel optimisation initiatives using journey analytics, improving onboarding, KYC and disbursal conversion by 35 per cent. He developed ecosystem partnerships for transaction-data-based credit assessment and automated settlement systems, and collaborated with credit and data science teams to strengthen risk models and early delinquency detection.
Menon standardised partner onboarding and API frameworks, reducing go-live timelines by 40 per cent and improving digital scalability.
Before Profectus Capital, he worked at PayU as senior manager – presales lead – enterprise business from August 2022 to August 2023. He set up a national presales function for fintech and digital commerce clients, aligning solutions such as EMI, BNPL, BBPS and offer engines to merchant requirements.
He also helped improve conversion rates by around 15 per cent through merchant persona mapping, demo frameworks and structured sales playbooks, working closely with product and go-to-market teams.
From April 2019 to July 2022, Menon served as business unit head – SMB – direct acquisitions at Worldline, where he built the SMB online payments vertical from scratch. The business scaled to Rs 2,500 crore in annual transaction volume, growing at 45 per cent year-on-year.
During this period, he introduced paperless onboarding processes including eKYC and eSign, developed partner dashboards and CRM automation systems, and integrated platforms such as Shopify, WooCommerce and Tally to expand merchant adoption.
Across roles, Menon has worked across digital lending, payments and merchant financing, with experience in product development, ecosystem partnerships, API integrations and fintech-led growth strategies.
At Paytm, he will focus on scaling lending products and strengthening digital credit infrastructure within the company’s financial services ecosystem.
His appointment comes as fintech firms continue to expand their lending and embedded finance offerings in a competitive market.
