Sethi, who resigned from Protean eGov Technologies last month, succeeds Sandeep Ghosh, who quit Visa after more than four years to pursue an external opportunity.
Visa India did not respond to ET’s queries.
ET reported on April 8 that Ghosh had communicated his decision to leave well in advance, allowing the company to manage an orderly transition and identify a successor before his departure was made public.
The leadership change comes as Visa sharpens its focus on digital payments and expands partnerships across the region.
Sethi brings diverse experience to the role, spanning global corporate banking, retail financial services, mobile money and large-scale government technology programmes. He began his career at Citigroup, where he spent 14 years across India, Africa, South America and the United States, working within the Transaction Banking Services vertical of the Corporate Bank.