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Valos Promotes From Within and Hires Fresh Talent
| Source: Valos, part of CommonHealth
PARSIPPANY, NJ--(Marketwire - June 25, 2009) - Valos, a CommonHealth business unit created
to provide strategic marketing services to improve patient access to
pharmaceutical brands competing in managed markets, today announced one
promotion and six new hires.
CommonHealth (www.commonhealth.com) is the world's leading
healthcare-communications network and a WPP (NASDAQ : WPPGY ) (www.wpp.com)
company.
Promotion
Suyen Segura has been promoted to senior account executive from her
previous position as program manager. In her new post, Ms. Segura will
oversee the daily activities for her assigned accounts, anticipating and
managing her clients' needs. Ms. Segura will also assist in the strategic
development of tactical concepts and contribute to new business
opportunities and marketing plans. Ms. Segura has been with the
CommonHealth organization for more than three years.
New Hires
Entering Valos as senior vice president, enterprise lead, Stephen LaMond
will locally manage the unit's West Coast-based biotechnology accounts. He
will also be responsible for acquiring new business from West Coast
biotechnology manufacturers, expanding Valos' resource pool and building
upon client offerings. Immediately prior to joining the group, Mr. LaMond
was employed as a senior marketing director at Nektar Therapeutics, a
biotechnology company located in the San Francisco Bay area of California.
Diana Angione joins Valos as a senior editor. She will be responsible for
editing, proofreading and fact-checking manuscripts and layouts for her
assigned projects. Previously, Ms. Angione worked as a copyeditor at Merck
& Co., Inc., a global pharmaceutical company located in Whitehouse Station.
Karla Dougherty comes to Valos as a senior copywriter, responsible for
overseeing, conceptualizing, reviewing and writing copy on projects for her
brand accounts. Most recently, Ms. Dougherty served as a copy supervisor at
Torre Lazur Managed Markets, a healthcare agency in Parsippany. She is also
the author of 45 published books in various therapeutic categories.
Dana Meisberger, Catherine Fallone and Scott Herget all join Valos as
traffic coordinators. They will route jobs through the agency from start to
finish, ensuring projects are completed on time and within budget. Before
signing on with Valos, Ms. Meisberger was employed as an account manager at
PromptCare Home Infusion, a provider of infusion therapy, respiratory
therapy services and home medical equipment in Clark; Ms. Fallone was a
client representative at Memorial Sloan-Kettering in Basking Ridge; and Mr.
Herget, having graduated from Montclair University with a bachelor's degree
in communication studies, interned in the sponsorship department with the
New Jersey Nets.
CommonHealth comprises Valos, Altum, Carbon, CommonHealth London,
CommonHealth Paris, Conectics, Earthborn, EvoLogue, Ferguson, HLS, MBS/Vox,
ProCom, Qi and Solara. The organization also maintains numerous
partnerships both within and outside of the WPP network of companies.