Contact Information: Contact: Beth Paulino or Kerianne McGuire CommonHealth (973) 352-1000
PARSIPPANY, NJ--(Marketwire - August 27, 2008) - CommonHealth today announced the appointment
of Marc Weiner to managing partner of the organization. Mr. Weiner will be
responsible for overseeing the management of CommonHealth's consumer
(EvoLogue), digital (Qi), and media planning and placement (Conectics)
service offerings.
CommonHealth (www.commonhealth.com) is the world's leading
healthcare-communications network and a WPP (NASDAQ : WPPGY ) (www.wpp.com)
company.
Mr. Weiner takes on this expanded role while remaining president of both
the Qi and Conectics groups. Included in his new responsibilities as
managing partner will be to evolve, advance and integrate CommonHealth's
direct-to-consumer, relationship-marketing and interactive businesses.
Additionally, he will oversee all client activity for the business units
under his supervision and will continue to serve on and now aid in the
management of the CommonHealth executive committee.
With more than 20 years of industry experience, Mr. Weiner has extensive
knowledge of and expertise in both traditional and digital marketing. He
began his career in the healthcare arena at Ferguson, CommonHealth's
founding professional advertising and promotion agency, where he played an
instrumental role in establishing the direct marketing division, Ferguson
Direct. Following his tenure at Ferguson, Mr. Weiner advanced to the role
of director of client services and president of the interactive group at
Torre Lazur McCann, a healthcare advertising agency, and was a founding
partner of Hyphen, an Omnicom digital agency, where he led the company as
president and CEO.
"Marc has truly demonstrated remarkable business and management skills
throughout his career. He is a leader, an innovator and has always had his
finger on the pulse of the industry. The CommonHealth network can and will
benefit from his exemplary guidance and visionary insight. I am confident
that under Marc's direction as managing partner, our consumer, interactive
and media services will continue to thrive, evolve and excel," stated Matt
Giegerich, president and CEO of CommonHealth.
CommonHealth comprises Conectics, EvoLogue, Qi, Ferguson, Altum, Carbon,
CommonHealth London, CommonHealth Paris, Earthborn, HLS, MBS/Vox, Noesis,
ProCom and Solara. The organization also maintains numerous partnerships
both within and outside of the WPP network of companies.
