Carbon Staff Enriched With New Talent


PARSIPPANY, NJ--(Marketwire - November 6, 2008) - Carbon, a CommonHealth professional advertising and promotion agency created to serve the marketing needs of emerging pharma and biotech companies and specialty brands, today announced six new hires.

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

New Hires

Debi Post comes to Carbon taking on the role of business manager. As such, Ms. Post will work with the creative and account teams to develop tactics for completing agency projects on time and within budget. Prior to joining Carbon, Ms. Post was employed as a print production manager at Gianettino & Meredith, Inc., an advertising agency in Murray Hill.

Andrea O'Brien joins the Carbon team as an account supervisor. In this role, Ms. O'Brien will be responsible for developing strategy and overseeing her clients' projects from start to finish. Before coming to Carbon, Ms. O'Brien was employed with Integrated Communications Corp., a healthcare communications company located in Parsippany, as an account supervisor.

Aaron Nietfeld and Michelle Schmidt both enter Carbon as senior account executives. Mr. Nietfeld and Ms. Schmidt will manage daily operations, tactical initiatives and client budgets for their designated brands. Prior to joining Carbon, Mr. Nietfeld was employed as an account executive at Torre Lazur McCann, a healthcare advertising and communications agency located in Parsippany. Ms. Schmidt previously worked as a senior account executive at the Berkley Heights office of Sudler & Hennessey, a healthcare communications company.

Natalie Fox joins Carbon as a copywriter, responsible for concepting, reviewing and writing copy on projects for her assigned accounts. Previously, Ms. Fox worked in Parsippany as a copywriter at PACE, a healthcare advertising agency.

Jaclyn Ferguson enters Carbon as an account coordinator. In this position, Ms. Ferguson will serve as a liaison between the creative department and the account team, ensuring that projects are completed on time and within budget. Ms. Ferguson graduated with a bachelor's degree in marketing from Farleigh Dickinson University prior to joining the Carbon team.

CommonHealth comprises Carbon, Altum, CommonHealth London, CommonHealth Paris, Conectics, Earthborn, EvoLogue, Ferguson, HLS, MBS/Vox, Noesis, ProCom, Qi and Solara. 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

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