Continued Growth at Solara.

PARSIPPANY, N.J. -- Solara, CommonHealth's managed care marketing unit, today announced the addition of three new hires.

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

Michael Strassberg and Michael Zilligen join Solara as senior vice president, enterprise leads. In their roles, each will be responsible for providing managed markets consulting services to clients. Most recently, Mr. Strassberg was a senior vice president with Torre Lazur Managed Markets, located in Parsippany. Mr. Zilligen was previously employed as an executive director of client services for The GMR Group, a managed healthcare consultancy based group in Fort Washington, Pa.

Tom Forbes comes to Solara as an account operations coordinator. In this role, Mr. Forbes will be responsible for estimates, project intake and tracking for his assigned brands. Prior to joining Solara, Mr. Forbes attended Rowan University and graduated with a degree in public relations.

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