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ZenithOptimedia, Mindshare get top ad awards at India Radio Forum
NEW DELHI: The radio spot for ‘Nescafe Mornings on Red FM’ by ZenithOptimedia won the award for best Use of Music/Song/Jingle by an Advertiser at the recently held India Radio Forum in the capital.
Mindshare won awards for Most Effective Use of Radio in an Activation Campaign with ‘Close Up Come Fall In Love – Valentines Day Activity’ and Most Outstanding Use of Radio in an Ad Campaign for ‘India’s Favourite Non-Sporting Game’ (Antakshri).
Reliance Life Insurance Co won the best CSR initiative from an advertiser on radio with ‘Greatest Fan’.
Meanwhile, Mindshare got the award for India’s Favourite Non-Sporting Game (Antakshri) for participants Virendra Bapardekar, Priya Chanda and Salil Mahadeshwar in the Radio Pitch Challenge held during the day of the Forum.
ZenithOptimedia was runner-up in this category with Lavanya Tagra and Aditya Singh taking part.
Both won prizes from Big FM, Red FM and Radio Mirchi. These awards were decided immediately after the Radio Pitch Challenge on the spot by a jury.
However, the winning team Mindshare walked away with the gold trophy and three tickets worth over Rs 170,000 to the 2014 Singapore Formula 1 Grand Prix.
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.
