CommonHealth Raises the Creative Bar at Consumer Group With the Hire of Millar as Chief Creative Officer


PARSIPPANY, NJ--(Marketwire - June 17, 2010) -  EvoLogue, a full-service consumer agency of CommonHealth providing insight-driven behavioral-marketing services to help improve the dialogue between consumers and healthcare professionals, today announced the appointment of Thomas Millar to executive vice president, chief creative officer.

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

As chief creative officer, Mr. Millar will be directly responsible for the overall management and productivity of the EvoLogue creative team. Reporting directly to Marc Weiner, managing partner at CommonHealth, he will also assist with client relationship-building and new business development for the consumer group.

Mr. Millar stated, "I'm thrilled and honored to join the EvoLogue team. The resources, talent and commitment in place at this agency make for one of the finest teams in consumer healthcare. I look forward to helping put EvoLogue on everyone's short list."

Mr. Millar has nearly 30 years of experience in the advertising and pharmaceutical marketing industries, in both the global and domestic markets. He launched his career as an art director in the 1980s at AC&R Advertising, a subsidiary advertising agency of Ted Bates Worldwide, in New York City. He then advanced to key creative positions at a number of leading advertising agencies, including Ogilvy & Mather, Bozell and Draft. Mr. Millar also was the owner and co-founder of the marketing company Greenberg/Millar. Immediately before joining the CommonHealth network, Mr. Millar served as executive vice president, executive creative director at Ogilvy Healthworld, a global healthcare agency located in New York City.

Noted Mr. Weiner, "We are delighted to welcome Tom to the EvoLogue executive team. His engagement helps crystallize our mission to foster a culture of creativity by attracting the best and brightest talent in the industry. Tom is smart, inventive and, most importantly, an inspirational leader. We believe he'll continue to help move EvoLogue forward, driving us to create compelling communications for all of our clients."

CommonHealth comprises EvoLogue, Altum, Carbon, CommonHealth Kyowa, Conectics, Earthborn, 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.

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