Liz Griggs, CEO of NextImage Medical, Joins ABL Organization

Santa Ana, CA — April 26, 2011 — Liz Griggs, Founder, Chairman and CEO of NextImage Medical, 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.

Founded in 2008, NextImage Medical provides workers’ compensation insurance carriers, third-party administrators, and self-insured employers with the highest quality, fastest and most cost-effective solutions to manage workers’ compensation costs. The company’s next generation of radiology management services features teleradiology and a PACS digital archiving system, improving diagnosis and treatment, reducing the time from imaging to diagnosis and treatment, and lowering workers’ compensation costs. NextImage Medical also offers the next generation of Electrodiagnostic Management Services, which uses a network of board-certified specialists at contracted rates to guarantee quality and reduce the likelihood of having repeat or unnecessary tests.

NextImage Medical has raised $5 million in venture capital funds; investors include Chrysalis Ventures. NextImageGrid is the company’s proprietary technology and work-flow system. It provides a quality-driven service designed to manage patient care from electronic centralized scheduling of the medical procedure to the tracking and electronic delivery of digital images and reports.

Liz has more than 22 years of experience in both workers compensation managed care and the healthcare industry. Currently, Liz is also the Co-Chairman of a new healthcare company, American Pain Solutions, Inc., which provides patients alternative pain solutions to surgery and narcotics. Previously, she was Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of One Call Medical, the largest payer-directed radiology network in the U.S. She grew this company from start-up to $140 million in revenue and sold the company to TA Associates from Boston, MA, for $115 million. Liz previously worked for the investment banking firm of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in both New York City and Boston, and The Bank of Boston, specializing in healthcare banking, and healthcare lending at Maryland National Bank.

Liz was a Dean’s Scholar at the University of Delaware, where she earned her BS in 1984. In 2001, she attended the Owner/President Management Program at the Harvard Business School.

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 .