Chris Boyd of Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Joins ABL Organization

Santa Ana, CA — March 4, 2010 — Chris Boyd, Senior VP and Area Manager for Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara, has joined the Adaptive Business Leaders Organization (ABL). As part of California’s leading vertical-industry Chief Executives’ Organization, ABL Members provide one another with executive leadership coaching through its confidential, professionally-facilitated, peer-CEO Advisory Board Round Tables, executive learning workshops, network of CEO peers, and expert resources.

Kaiser’s Santa Clara Medical Center provides high-quality healthcare for 289,000 members in California’s Silicon Valley, at a 327-bed acute care hospital, a 270-provider medical office building, and three satellite clinics in Campbell, Milpitas and Mountain View. More than 485 physicians and 4,300 staff care for members in the Santa Clara service area, which extends north to Palo Alto, south to San Jose, east to Milpitas and west to the Santa Cruz Mountains. Founded in 1945, Kaiser Permanente is one of America’s leading healthcare providers and not-for-profit health plans, currently serving 8.6 million members in nine states and the District of Columbia.

Chris brings over 25 years of hospital management experience to his position at Kaiser. Prior to being named the head of Kaiser's Santa Clara region, in November 2009, he was CEO of Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center, part of Sharp HealthCare (formerly the San Diego Hospital Association). He began his tenure at Sharp in September 2000. Earlier, he was CEO and Managing Director of Inland Valley Regional Medical Center in Wildomar, and started with Inland Valley in 1997. Beginning in 1984, he held administrative positions in private, not-for-profit and investor-owned hospitals in Oregon, Illinois, Washington and Louisiana.

Chris first discovered his passion for healthcare and hospital management while spending nearly three years with the Peace Corps, working in a mission hospital in Liberia, West Africa. He has a history of active community involvement, including memberships in the United Way, various chambers and rotaries, the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, YMCA, Boy Scouts, American Heart Association, and coaching youth soccer. He earned his BS degree from St. John’s University in Minnesota, did two years of pre-med work at the University of Minnesota, and earned his Master’s degree in Public Health from Tulane University. In his leisure time, Chris enjoys his family, most team sports, all forms of conditioning and weight training, and motorcycles.

About the Adaptive Business Leaders (ABL) Organization
ABL supports the needs of its Member CEOs by providing a place for top-level executives to draw on the experience, knowledge and skill sets of their peers in a vertical industry, personal advisory board – “multi-coach approach” – setting.

The core component of the CEO Membership experience is the group Round Table meeting. Members meet once a month for a half-day with a group of peer CEOs, Presidents, COOs and Division General Managers from non-competing companies, all from the same industry (healthcare, technology or life sciences), in a trusted and confidential board room-like setting, which allows ABL Members to tackle topics and enhance their decision making and business performance. Topics include: developing and honing new business strategies and best practices, new lines of business, “A-players” on the management team, and an effective board of directors, as well as understanding trends in new markets, mergers and acquisitions, compensation, and other “hot” topics brought to the Round Tables by the Members themselves.

ABL Members also gather several times a year at workshops and conferences to exchange ideas and connect with other chief executives beyond their own CEO peer groups. In effect, ABL Members serve as one another’s business coaches within the Round Tables and are encouraged to connect and leverage their co-Member peers’ particular skills and expertise for additional leadership coaching, one-on-one, outside of their monthly group meeting. In addition, each Round Table’s facilitator also serves as an objective business advisor, offering executive and industry insights and advice.

 ABL's Chief Executive Leadership Development Round Table program is currently offered in California's Greater Los Angeles, Orange and San Francisco County areas. More information about the ABL Organization can be found at http://www.abl.org .