Issue of July 24, 2007
MARKETING
Web development and print media firm JK Design has announced Jeremy Rech was recently hired as production artist. He will be responsible for Web-based materials and pre-press production for print, including creating layouts, performing quality checks.
Mr. Rech’s experience includes designing print materials and Web sites, typesetting and providing computer technician support.
Located in Hillsborough, 20-year-old JK Design provides design, advertising and marketing services, including Web design and multimedia and video animation and production.
Theresa Lukey has joined the Plainsboro-based Patient Marketing Group as vice president, strategic consulting services. Her 20 years of progressive industry experience has positioned her to identify marketing opportunities for pharmaceuticals. Her expertise in strategic and tactical marketing, multi-channel modeling and planning, direct and alliance programs, and marketing intelligence will be used as she teams with PMG’s clients to design strategic patient relationship marketing programs that effectively increase brand loyalty.
Consumer marketing firm Oxford Communications, based in Lambertville, announced the appointment of Sue Helondovitch as public relations senior account supervisor. She brings more than 10 years of public relations know-how to Oxford where she will develop and lead strategic media and community relations efforts for clients including Wegmans Food Markets, Centex Homes and Prime Retail. Ms. Helondovitch currently resides in Yardley, Pa.
Additionally, Robert Lynch has joined Oxford as a planner/buyer. He brings more than 20 years media experience to Oxford and has worked in consumer and trade promotional marketing for such high profile clients as BMW, Sony and Pepsi.
As a member of Oxford’s media department, Mr. Lynch researches, develops and implements television, radio, print and Internet advertising schedules for the agency’s diverse clientele. He recently relocated to Solebury Township, Pa. from northern New Jersey
HEALTH & MEDICINE
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has looked to its own ranks and appointed Dr. David C. Colby, a health and health care researcher and policy analyst, as vice president for research and evaluation.
Research and assessment are instrumental in building evidence for what works and what doesn’t in changing health care systems and policy, and are integral to knowing when and how the RWJ Foundation’s philanthropic investments are having an impact.
Dr. Colby joined the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 1998 as senior program officer, after a research and teaching career specializing in health care financing and health policy in government and the academic world. He has served as interim vice president for research and evaluation at the RWJ Foundation since May 2006.
He and his wife, Susan, a retired school psychologist, live in Princeton. They have three adult children and four grandchildren.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focuses on the pressing health and health care issues facing our country. As one of the nation’s largest philanthropies devoted exclusively to improving the health and health care of all Americans, the RWJ Foundation works with a diverse group of organizations and individuals to identify solutions and achieve comprehensive, meaningful and timely change.
Stephen A. Ross joined Cytogen Corp. as senior vice president, sales and marketing. Mr. Ross joins from GlaxoSmithKline where for 15 years he progressed through positions of increasing responsibility in sales and marketing, most recently he led a team of more than 300 employees to establish a new oncology and cervical cancer business units in the United Kingdom.
Based in Plainsboro, Cytogen is a specialty pharmaceutical company dedicated to advancing the treatment and care of cancer patients by building, developing, and commercializing a portfolio of oncology products.
REAL ESTATE
Paul Goldman has joined Mercer Oak Realty L.L.C. as senior director at the Lawrence-based commercial real estate firm. Mr. Goldman has more than 20 years of experience in Princeton-area commercial real estate.
He has been affiliated with both Commercial Property Network in Princeton, and Hemisphere Management Co. in Iselin, and acted as a broker and consultant on behalf of corporate clients acquiring office and laboratory space. He has also acted as an agent and principal in the leasing and ownership of office properties in central New Jersey.
Established in 2001, Mercer Oak Realty now has four professionals serving development, corporate, investment and consulting clients in the Princeton area. The company will be moving to a new headquarters at Princeton South Corporate Center in November, where it will represent OPUS East in the leasing of 280,000 square-feet of space currently under construction.
HUMAN RESOURCES
The Learning Key Inc. recently announced the appointment of David Piltz as managing partner. He will oversee the Learning Key’s corporate headquarters in Washington Crossing, Pa., and lead business development for the company. With the company since January, he has more than 13 years of hands-on experience with training programs in leadership, organizational and educational change, communication, teamwork and customer service.
ARCHITECTURE
Newark-based architecture planning and interiors firm GRAD Associates, P.A. has announced the promotion of Yoshita Chandrani from project manager to associate. Ms. Chandrani, who lives in Plainsboro, joined the firm last year.
She has worked in India and Africa as well as the United States, and is experienced in architectural designing, planning and interiors covering all major development fields of housing, healthcare, educational, residential, industrial and commercial projects.
TELEMESSAGING
Gary A. Pudles, president and chief executive officer of AnswerNet Network, a Princeton-based telemessaging firm and supplier of contact center services, has been given the Association of TeleServices International’s Learning By Association by Sharing Award.
ATSI, based in Atkinson, N.H., is an international trade association established by and for entrepreneurs in the telemessaging business. The LBA Award is given to individual members who demonstrate a strong willingness to share their expertise, knowledge, and ideas with the rest of the membership.

