It’s official – Sachin Ambekar is Chief Creative Officer at Leo Burnett Solutions Sri Lanka

The official press release has gone out over the move of Sachin Ambekar to Leo Burnett Solutions Sri Lanka. Campaign Brief Asia is not certain why the release has taken so long but, for the record, Ambekar joined Leo Burnett in Colombo in October last year as Chief Creative Officer.

Ambekar resigned his previous ECD post at Y&R Jakarta early in 2011 and was replaced in April last year by Kevin Le.

Ambekar started his career in Mumbai. A few years and several awards later, he moved to Singapore and since then, has worked with some of the top agencies in Asia Pacific. He has successfully handled multi-million dollar projects on brands including LG Electronics, Danon, Kalbe Nutritionals, Maxis HotLink, McDonald’s, Michelin, Tiger Beer and Fevicol.Ambekar has been Course Coordinator for the Australian AWARD School in Singapore and has served as a member of the Grand Jury at The New York Festival 2010. Under Ambekar’s leadership, Y&R Jakarta won Indonesia’s first ever Gold Lion at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity; as well as collected more than 23 international awards between 2010 and 2011 — leading it to become the number one creative agency in Indonesia based on Campaign Brief Asia’s creative rankings. He also helped doubled the agency’s accounts and headcount in 18 months.

Ambekar said, “It is much more challenging and exciting to go to a place that has so much potential. I am thoroughly excited with this new opportunity. I am proud to be a part of the LB network again after 10 years. Leo Burnett Sri Lanka has some great people and a great client roster. Their recent win at Spikes Asia certainly has given the agency more confidence. I hope to do even better than before with Leo Burnett in Sri Lanka. Ranil de Silva is a mentor of Sri Lankan advertising. I am looking forward to teaming up with him to drive the standards of the marketing communications industry in Sri Lanka.”

National Creative Director of Leo Burnett India, K.V. Sridhar (Pops) said “Sachin is a great addition to our Leo Burnett Asia team. Apart from being a great creative guy, he is also an awesome leader with a great ability to build creative teams and reputation of an agency; I am personally very excited to have him in the family.”