MUMBAI: Sanjay Sipahimalani has returned to Bates as executive creative director. His immediate mandate will be to take care of the Colgate account and will report to Bates national creative director Sagar Mahabaleshwarkar.

Sipahimalani quit Bates to join Percept/H as executive creative director in August 2011 where he was responsible for planning, conceptualising and implementing creative strategies, managing the creative team, and handling business development.

Sipahimalani started his career as a creative director at Grey Worldwide in 2000 and continued there for four years. After that, he moved to Publicis as creative director. Spending a year and two months at Publicis, he joined Vyas Giannetti Creative as executive creative director in 2005. After working at the agency for about three-and-a-half years, he shifted to Bates.