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Joseph M. Mahady, 54, was named president of Wyeth Pharmaceuticals effective Jan. 1. Mahady, who lives in Radnor, vowed to keep expanding the Madison, N.J., company's core drugs, including Enbrel for inflammatory diseases, while developing new products.

Joseph M. Mahady, 54, was named president of Wyeth Pharmaceuticals effective Jan. 1. Mahady, who lives in Radnor, vowed to keep expanding the Madison, N.J., company's core drugs, including Enbrel for inflammatory diseases, while developing new products.

Mahady was president of global business at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.

He said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has grown more conservative in approving drugs, and if that continues, "that disappoints not only us as an industry, it's going to disappoint the consumer public and the paying public."

- Karl Stark

InfoLogix Inc. in Hatboro has hired

Eric Rubino

as chief operating officer. Rubino was chief operating officer of Neoware Inc., King of Prussia, which was acquired Oct. 1 by Hewlett-Packard Co.

Neuromed Pharmaceuticals, Conshohocken, named

Jeffrey Arcara

vice president of business development and

Gene Wright

vice president of project leadership. Arcara was executive director of marketing at Wyeth. Wright was executive director and senior project leader of antiviral/antifungal groups at Schering-Plough Corp.

James J. Finnegan

was named vice president of intellectual-property strategy at Comcast Corp. He was vice president of intellectual property for Qimonda AG in Munich, Germany.

Andrea Kennedy

was named human resources director at the Center for Autism, a nonprofit treatment and evaluation center in Philadelphia. She was human resources manager for Electronic Ink.

Jean Vernor

was named chief executive officer of HCI Direct, a Bensalem direct marketer of hosiery and consumer-health products. She was president of GE Partnership Marketing Group, a unit of General Electric Co.

Philadelphia Media Holdings L.L.C. promoted

Jim Gregory

to vice president of circulation. He was circulation director in charge of transportation.

John Dolan

was named vice president of enrollment services at La Salle University. He was president and chief executive officer of the Catholic Foundation, Denver.

R. Stanley Schuck

was named president and chief executive officer of the Main Line Chamber of Commerce as of Jan. 1. He will succeed Robert A. Pucci, who served in the post for 11 years. Schuck was director of external affairs at Verizon Pennsylvania.

Sean F. Saunders

was named executive director of the American Helicopter Museum & Education Center, West Chester. He was executive director of Second Mile, a nonprofit organization.

Ken Foreman

was named chief operating officer and chief financial officer of Virtus Partners L.L.C., East Norriton. He was the principal of Foreman Consulting Group Inc.

Hermann Kampling

was named president and chief operating officer of Seton Co., a Norristown provider of leather for automotive interiors. He was managing director of GKN Walterscheid.

- Inquirer staff