Florian Birkner and Nicolas Vontobel join Draftfcb/Lowe-Group

 The Draftfcb/Lowe Group is upgrading. Following the departure of Patrick Lienert (see ), Florian Birkner and Nicolas Vontobel are taking over responsibility as Creative Directors at the two agencies. Together with Keith Loell, who has overall responsibility for the Group as Executive CD, they will continue to invest heavily in creative quality, according to a press release issued on Thursday. Florian Birkner started his career at Scholz & Friends Berlin before moving to Advico Young & Rubicam in 2005. Most recently, he worked at Publicis.
Nicolas Vontobel has worked for McCann-Erickson, Weber, Hodel, Schmid, JWT+H+F, Lesch+Frei and Advico Young & Rubicam, among others.