PROMOTIONS/NEW HIRES

The Weber Group , Cambridge, Mass., hired James Finlaw as senior
vice president. He was a director at Cunningham Communications,
Cambridge.

Lisa Lindgren was appointed director of the San Diego HyperMedia
Center, a unit of San Diego marcom firm McQuerterGroup. She was
manager of business alliances at the Center for Mobile Computing
Technology at Science Applications International Corp.

The Chicago office of Edelman Public Relations Worldwide added
Paul Oestreicher, Ph.D. as head of its medical group. He transferred
from the firm's New York office.

Arthur Silverman, director of communications at the Center for
Science in the Public Interest, Washington, D.C., joined Fenton
Communications, Washington, D.C., as one of the firm's top three
senior executives. (The firm uses no titles for its executives.)