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Stratagem Hires Three New Employees to Service Growing Client List

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July 15, 2005—Stratagem Healthcare Communications, the San Francisco healthcare advertising agency, recently hired three highly-skilled advertising professionals to serve the agency's growing list of clients.  New staff members are Account Executive Sima Shah, Senior Traffic Manager Ellyn Kutch and Copy Editor Stephen Gershon.

*     Sima Shah joins Stratagem after developing promotional and programming strategies that reached millions of viewers for C-SPAN in Washington D.C. and at Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta, GA. Previously, she produced promotional videos for Indicorps, a non-profit organization working on behalf of India's progress.

*     Ellyn Kutch brings excellent traffic management skills to the Stratagem team, including managing marketing and online advertisements and serving as a liaison among account managers, clients and creative divisions. Previously, she was the studio manager at GAP and traffic and production manager at Seismicom, MRM Partners, Frankle Company, Providian Financial and Chartmasters, all in San Francisco, Calif.

*     Stephen Gershon worked as a freelance copywriter, proofreader, and senior editor, contributing to Microsoft projects for MRM Gould, Charles Schwab
projects for CRS Advertising and the launch of pharmaceutical product lines at Giant Creative Strategy in San Francisco, Calif.  He has also worked for Abelson-Taylor, Inc. and the American Medical Association in Chicago, Ill.

Stratagem added the new employees to help existing staff service a growing client list.  Since the beginning of 2005, Stratagem has added four new clients: Oncology Therapeutics Network (OTN) of South San Francisco, Calif., Free & Clear, Inc. of Seattle, Wash., Tensys Medical, Inc. of San Diego, Calif. and Pacific Bioscience Laboratories of Bellevue, Wash.

Stratagem is an independent San Francisco-based, full-service marketing communications agency with affiliate partners throughout Europe and Asia. Launched in 1997, the agency combines "big idea" strategic thinking and creative impact with flexibility, attentiveness and streamlined efficiencies to launch and sustain global brands. The firm has for the past three years been named among the top-50 medical advertising agencies by Medical Advertising News and is among the 100 fastest-growing companies in the San Francisco Bay Area as listed by the San Francisco Business Times.

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Contact:
John Knox
Knox Communications
1.415.255.9043
Web site:  www.stratagem-hc.com