Geoff Rutledge, Epocrates' CMO & EVP, Joins ABL Organization

Santa Ana, CA — April 15, 2010 — Geoff Rutledge, Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President of Product Development for Epocrates, Inc., 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.

Epocrates, Inc. develops clinical information and decision support tools that enable healthcare professionals to find answers more quickly and confidently at the point of care. More than 800,000 healthcare professionals – including one in three U.S. physicians, and half the med students – use Epocrates’ innovative mobile and web-based products to help them reduce medical errors, improve patient care and increase productivity. The company’s trusted clinical content is developed by physicians and pharmacists and is continuously updated to keep users informed and up to date. Founded in 1998, and currently employing more than 200, Epocrates’ investors include the Sprout Group, Interwest Partners, Three Arch Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Bay City Capital and Goldman Sachs.

Previously, Geoff was Chief Information Officer at Wellsphere, an online health site with over seven million monthly visits. At San Mateo Medical Center, he was responsible for the strategy and implementation of successful outpatient and emergency department clinical information system services. He was a Founder and VP of Clinical Transformation for First Consulting Group, and Founder and VP of Business Development/Executive Director of WebMD Canada. Additionally, he co-founded the academic division of Emergency Medicine at Boston Beth Israel Hospital at Harvard Medical School. Geoff has also developed advanced devices to monitor the treatment of critical patients in the ICU.

Recognized in the current edition of “Guide to America’s Top Physicians,” Geoff has practiced clinical medicine for over 25 years, is board certified in internal and emergency medicine and is a former faculty member of Harvard Medical School and Stanford University School of Medicine. He earned his BS in Cell and Molecular Biology and his MD from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at UCSD Medical Center and earned a Ph.D. in Medical Information Sciences from Stanford University. Geoff is an expert-rated hang-glider pilot, an active private airplane pilot, scuba diver, and proud owner of a Belgian Malinois dog.

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 .