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Sunil Kataria re-elected as chairman of Indian Society of Advertisers
Mumbai: The newly elected executive council of the Indian Society of Advertisers (ISA) has re-elected Godrej Consumer Products Ltd (GCPL), CEO- India, and SAARC Sunil Kataria as chairman of the body. He was re-elected for the sixth consecutive term.
“Kataria has led the Society over the past five years to greater heights garnering support from the fellow executive council members, the ISA members, and other industry bodies,” said the association in a statement.
“The focus will be to make the ISA even stronger in future to provide value-added support to our members for the new normal and beyond. With digital advertising having ascended as second only to TV and growing even further, our endeavour this year would be to take forward our efforts in the area of digital measurement. The ISA’s plans to work with Barc to create a Multimedia Measurement are progressing in good shape,” said Kataria.
ISA has served as a strong voice for the advertisers over the last 69 years, and played a significant role in the formation of Barc and is closely partnering with it towards advertisers getting robust and credible data.
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.
