Adient Hires Three and Advances One.

PARSIPPANY, N.J. -- Adient, a CommonHealth professional advertising and promotion agency located in Wayne, today announced three additions and a promotion within its account management and creative groups.

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

New Hires:

--John Finan has joined Adient as an executive vice president, managing director. In this role, he will supervise account management teams in the creation and implementation of professional marketing programs. Immediately prior, Mr. Finan was employed as senior vice president, managing director of medical education services at Cardinal Health, located in Wayne.

--As a traffic coordinator, Antoine Poncelet will serve as liaison among his account team members to ensure that projects are completed on time and within budget. Before joining Adient, he was a producer and talent representative for Liquid Vinyl Inc. in Wayne.

--Emily Wong has been hired as a production artist and, as such, will create electronic mechanicals and assist in their preparation for disk release to vendors. She was previously employed with Simon & Schuster in New York City as a freelance online production artist.

Promotion:

--Roberta Lipp has been promoted to account executive from traffic manager. In this position, Ms. Lipp will support the development of professional marketing initiatives for her assigned accounts. She began her career at Adient four and a half years ago as a traffic coordinator.

CommonHealth comprises Adient, Altum, Carbon, Conectics, Ferguson, HLS, MBS/Vox, Noesis, ProCom, Qi, Quantum, Solara and Xchange. The organization also maintains numerous partnerships both within and outside of the WPP Group network of companies.