Altum Announces One Promotion and Five Hires.

PARSIPPANY, N.J. -- Altum, CommonHealth's full-service professional healthcare advertising and promotion company differentiated by a specialized creative and scientific approach to long-term strategic brand vision, today announced one promotion and five additions to its account 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.

Promotion

Dana Semancik has been promoted to account supervisor from senior account executive. Ms. Semancik will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day activities of her designated account while providing strategic and tactical insight for her team.

New Hire

Danielle Rose Munson comes to Altum as a senior account executive. Ms. Munson will be in charge of implementing tactical marketing efforts, as well as developing and handling the daily execution of her assigned brand. Most recently, Ms. Munson was employed at Nelson Communications in New York City.

Adrienne Zajac has joined Altum as a senior account executive. Ms. Zajac will be responsible for managing the day-to-day flow of projects and will contribute to the strategic and tactical planning for her assigned brands. Previously, Ms. Zajac was a senior account executive at HealthSTAR Advertising in Woodbridge.

Catherine Bergart comes to Altum as a copy supervisor. Ms. Bergart brings a combination of professional oncology and consumer writing experience to the creative group of Altum. Prior to joining Altum, Ms. Bergart was a freelance writer for Advanced Therapeutics Group (ATG), part of Saatchi & Saatchi Healthcare, located in New York City.

Stephanie Johns has been hired as a senior copywriter for Altum, and she will be responsible for overseeing the development of copy for all professional marketing materials created for her assigned accounts. Prior to joining Altum, Ms. Johns worked as a contract copywriter creating direct-to-physician and direct-to-patient campaigns for Xchange, a sister company to Altum and CommonHealth's relationship-marketing unit, also located in Parsippany.

Marjorie Borden joins Altum as a senior editor. In her role, Ms. Borden will be responsible for the editing of various oncology projects. Prior to joining Altum, Ms. Borden was a managing editor at Triple i (a division of MediMedia USA Inc.). Triple i is located in Carlstadt.

CommonHealth comprises Altum, Adient, 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.