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PricewaterhouseCoopers L.L.P.'s Philadelphia office promoted

Scott L. Austin

to state and local tax partner,

Steven A. Heffernen

to mergers and acquisitions tax partner,

Cheryl A. Kulpa

to industry services group tax partner,

Amy Lynn V. Flood

to global human resources solutions partner, and

Gary S. Sterbinsky

to assurance partner.

Lamb McErlane in West Chester named

Joel L. Frank

managing partner. He is also a partner in the litigation department and chairman of the firm's executive committee.

Vanguard Group Inc. said

Oliver E. Buckley

will join the portfolio management teams of Vanguard Growth & Income Fund and Vanguard Morgan Growth Fund at the end of January. He had been chief investment officer and executive vice president at Franklin Portfolio Associates L.L.C.

John S. Cone

, president, chief executive officer, and chairman of Franklin, who has managed the funds since 1999, will relinquish portfolio management responsibilities to Buckley in July.

Beasley Broadcast Group Inc. appointed

Rob Keegan

general sales manager for Wired 96.5, WRDW-FM, in Philadelphia. Keegan replaces

Jefferson Ward

.

Jill S. Lawlor

is the new vice president of marketing and community outreach at Cooper University Hospital. She was executive vice president of Winning Edge Communications in Princeton.

Brandywine Global Investment Management L.L.C., Philadelphia, named

Stacy M. Dutton

managing partner. Dutton was president and chief investment officer of Park Agency Inc., a New York investment management and financial services company. Brandywine is a subsidiary of Legg Mason Inc.

The Project Management Institute in Newtown Square appointed

John J. Doyle

vice president of finance and administration. Doyle was director of organizational performance at Project Management.

Brian A. Weiss

was named vice president of product management at Project Management. Weis was director of career management there.

Locus Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Blue Bell appointed

Jamie Freedman

chief medical officer and vice president of clinical research and regulatory affairs. He held various positions, conducting and supervising clinical drug development, at Merck Research Labs.

NuPathe Inc. in Conshohocken appointed

George Moonsammy

vice president of development. He was senior vice president of clinical, regulatory and medical affairs at Somerset Pharmaceuticals in Tampa, Fla.

Radian Group Inc., Philadelphia, appointed

Richard A. Gillespie

senior vice president of corporate communications and marketing. Gillespie was executive vice president, chief marketing officer, and executive committee member of GMAC Residential in Horsham.

Wills Eye Health System appointed

Julia A. Haller

ophthalmologist in chief. Haller was a professor at the Wilmer Institute of Johns Hopkins University and director of its Vitreoretinal Surgical Fellowship Training Program.