Easy Breathe's CEO Nick Weiss Joins ABL Organization

Santa Ana, CA — April 19, 2011 — Nick Weiss, Owner and CEO of Easy Breathe, 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.

Easy Breathe is an online retailer of equipment and supplies for the treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). Founded in February 2011 (with a scheduled launch of easybreathe.com in mid-2011), Easy Breathe offers patients the ability to order over 1,500 OSA products, with industry-leading prices, a next-day delivery option and an easy, user-friendly online experience. Easy Breathe endeavors to treat the rising prevalence of OSA and serve the growing demand from patients for more consumer-friendly interactions with healthcare providers.

Previously, Nick served as acting Chief Operating Officer of Union Treatment Centers (UTC), a chain of outpatient medical clinics and physical rehabilitation centers, headquartered in Austin, TX. Nick initiated a process to build an operating and management structure to position UTC to accelerate its opening of new clinics and pursue a national expansion opportunity. Earlier, he was CFO of Nationwide Medical, Inc. (NMI), a high-growth, direct-to-consumer provider of prescription equipment and consumable supplies for the treatment of sleep apnea. Prior to NMI, he was a Vice President at Barrington Associates (now Wells Fargo Securities Middle Market Investment Banking) for eight years, where he became an expert in developing liquidity and financial options for middle-market companies. Nick helped his clients access a range of capital markets and strategic alternatives, including private equity and sales to strategic acquirers. He enjoyed the close working and advisory relationships he formed with the owners and executives of his clients and spent a significant time working with these individuals to create detailed financial and strategic plans for their companies. Prior to Barrington, Nick was a Research Intern at the Economic Policy Research Institute in Cape Town, South Africa, where he studied the regressivity of the South African tax code.

Nick graduated from Williams College, where he completed a double major in Economics and Biology, with a concentration in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. A former college football player, Nick is a fan of college and NFL football, and college and NBA basketball, and enjoys playing in his weekend pick-up basketball games.

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 .