MUMBAI: Leo Burnett has promoted Srikanth Sarathy as the head of the Mumbai office. Sarathy, who was earlier brand partner, has been with the agency for almost a decade now.

Confirming the development to Indiantelevision.com, Leo Burnett chairman and CEO Arvind Sharma said, "Srikanth has been with us in various capacities for the past 10 odd years. He was in the Mumbai office for the first five years, then with the London office for three years, following which he returned back to Mumbai two years ago. We had always identified him as a star."

Sarathy had a set of clients like McDonald, Coke, Heinz etc under his belt as brand partner. He will now be responsible for all the business falling under Leo Burnett's Mumbai office.