Carbon Promotes From Within and Continues to Grow With Fresh Talent


PARSIPPANY, NJ--(Marketwire - May 5, 2009) - Carbon, a CommonHealth professional advertising and promotion agency created to serve the marketing needs of emerging pharma and specialty brands, today announced six promotions and three new hires.

CommonHealth (www.commonhealth.com) is the world's leading healthcare-communications network and a WPP (NASDAQ: WPPGY) (www.wpp.com) company.

Promotions

Mike Brune, a CommonHealth veteran of 13 years, has been promoted to senior vice president, creative director, copy. In his new post, Mr. Brune will supervise his creative teams, ensuring all copy meets client expectations for quality and consistency. He will also provide strategic insights and innovative concepts for his assigned brands.

With Carbon for three years, Anne Squadrito has been elevated to vice president, group creative director from her prior rank of vice president, associate creative director. Ms. Squadrito will manage and motivate the creative teams, as well as focus on the cultivation of new business.

Also with the agency three years, Jim Lothrop has advanced to group art supervisor from art supervisor. He will manage the creative workflow on all of his designated projects. Mr. Lothrop will also continue to conceptualize new campaign and marketing initiatives for Carbon's clients.

Alyson Romanelli has been promoted from account supervisor to account group supervisor. As such, she will be responsible for the day-to-day activities of her accounts and is also charged with providing strategic and tactical insights for her team. Ms. Romanelli has been with Carbon for three years.

Both approaching four years with CommonHealth, Michael Koch and Paul Triolo have each been promoted from assistant account executive to account executive. They will manage the daily responsibilities for their allocated accounts, guiding the successful implementation of brand marketing initiatives while maintaining client relations.

New Hires

Nicholas SanPhilip has joined Carbon as a senior account executive. As such, he will oversee all day-to-day responsibilities and operations for his assigned brands, ensuring clients' needs are met. Before joining the company, Mr. SanPhilip was employed as senior account executive at The Harrington Group, an advertising agency in Morristown.

Christelle Jerome and Shawn Mattison join the Carbon team as account coordinators. Both are charged with routing jobs through the agency from inception through completion, and monitoring project budgets and timelines. Prior to joining the agency, Ms. Mattison was employed as a substitute teacher for Newark Public Schools and Ms. Jerome interned in the marketing department of McLean, Koehler, Sparks & Hammond, a CPA firm located in Hunt Valley, Maryland.

CommonHealth comprises Carbon, Altum, CommonHealth London, CommonHealth Paris, Conectics, Earthborn, EvoLogue, Ferguson, HLS, MBS/Vox, ProCom, Qi, Solara and Valos. The organization also maintains numerous partnerships both within and outside of the WPP network of companies.

Contact Information: Contact: Beth Paulino or Kerianne Slattery CommonHealth (973) 352-1000