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Veteran media professional DK Bose passes away
MUMBAI: Veteran media professional DK Bose passed away on Friday. He was a pioneering advertising and media professional who laid the foundation for media planning function in the Indian industry. The industry mourned his loss.
In a career spanning five decades, Bose was associated with several leading companies. Together with his team, he was crunching numbers and calculating the reach for brands at a time when no excel sheets were accessible. He trained many media professionals during his career.
Bose was a media director at Hindustan Thompson Associates between 1984 and 1991. He later moved to JWT Delhi for a period of nearly four years in the capacity of a VP. After his stint at JWT, he joined RK Swammy BBDO as an executive director and then in a few years moved to Ogilvy Outreach as a president. He served in the latter role between 1998 and 2001.
For the last 14 years, Bose had served as a consultant in the field of rural and social marketing. He recently got his biography Life Unstoppable published through Amazon.
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.
