Altum Promotes Fishlin.PARSIPPANY, N.J. -- Altum, a CommonHealth freestanding free·stand·ing adj. Standing or operating independently of anything else: a freestanding bell tower; a freestanding maternity clinic. , full-service professional healthcare advertising and promotion company focused on high-science and specialty markets, today announced the promotion of Jerry Fishlin to executive vice president, director of client services. CommonHealth (www.commonhealth.com) is the world's leading healthcare-communications network and a WPP Group WPP Group plc (LSE: WPP) (NASDAQ: WPPGY), based in London, United Kingdom, is one of the world's largest communications services groups (and one of the big six advertising holding companies, the others being Omnicom, Interpublic, Publicis, Dentsu and Havas) employing (NASDAQ/ADR:WPPGY; www.wpp WPP Wire & Plastic Product PLC WPP World Press Photo WPP Web Presence Provider WPP Wolf Pack Productions (anime fan subbing group) WPP Witness Protection Program WPP Wireless Packet Platform WPP Work Package Planning .com) company. In this new role, Mr. Fishlin will be responsible for developing and maintaining the agency's ongoing client activities and will handle new business initiatives for the company. Mr. Fishlin brings to Altum more than 20 years of experience in marketing, sales and business development in biotechnology, with a focus in the oncology and hematology markets. Mr. Fishlin started his career as a professional sales representative at Schering Corporation, a global pharmaceutical company, and advanced through their ranks to become senior product manager for marketing. Following his tenure there, Mr. Fishlin built his career with senior marketing positions at companies such as Chiron Corporation Chiron Corporation was a multinational biotechnology firm based in Emeryville, California that was acquired by Novartis International AG on April 20 2006. It had offices and facilities in eighteen countries on five continents. and US Bioscience. In 1994 he founded Bio Resources, a consulting company Noun 1. consulting company - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting firm business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a working with biotech bi·o·tech n. Informal Biotechnology. biotech Noun short for biotechnology Noun 1. start-ups and early-stage oncology products. Having launched both national and global pharmaceutical products, as well as expanded indications for well-known prescriptions, Mr. Fishlin also has extensive experience with healthcare advertising agencies. He has held many senior-level positions at agencies throughout his career including Lally, McFarland & Pantello and Saatchi & Saatchi Healthcare. Mr. Fishlin joined the Altum team nearly one year ago as a senior vice president, director of client services. "Jerry is an eminent force in the healthcare arena. He has an extensive background in both the pharmaceutical and healthcare advertising sectors. From his first day at Altum, Jerry has helped drive our client service initiatives above and beyond. We are proud to have Jerry on our team, and I commend his competitive spirit and hard work," stated Michael Parisi, president of Altum. CommonHealth comprises Altum, Adient, Carbon, Conectics, Ferguson, HLS (Hue Lightness Saturation) A color space that is closely related to HSB, except that Brightness is called Lightness and is measured from 0 to 1 rather than from 0 to 100%. See HSB. , MBS/Vox, Noesis, ProCom, Qi, Quantum, Solara and Xchange. The organization also maintains numerous partnerships both within and outside of the WPP network of companies. |
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