• by Amy Corr  @MediaPostOTL, April 30, 2014

Lowe Campbell Ewald hired Paul Taylor and Nigel Rahimpour join as group directors to lead strategic planning efforts on two key accounts. Taylor will lead the brand planning team for the agency's USAA account out of the San Antonio office. He will report to Kevin Wertz, managing director of Lowe Campbell Ewald's San Antonio office. Rahimpour will be based out of New York and lead brand planning for the agency's Milk Processor Education Program account. He will report to Sal Taibi, president of Lowe Campbell Ewald's New York office. Taylor joins Lowe Campbell Ewald after a stint with his own insights and strategy consultancy, Beechcroft Road. Prior to that, he was a strategy director and senior partner at MediaCom where he was responsible for setting the agency's strategic vision for brands like Revlon and Audi. Prior to MediaCom, he was a consumer planning director at Diageo, working on brands including Captain Morgan, Smirnoff and Ketel One. Rahimpour was previously a global group planning director at Saatchi & Saatchi, where he lead integrated strategies for General Mills brands such as Cheerios and Haagen-Dazs International. Prior to that, he was a planning director at Leo Burnett where he led strategy efforts on Kellogg's adult cereal brands.