Accuray CEO Joins ABL Organization

Orange, CA — May 29, 2009 — Euan Thomson, Ph.D., President and CEO of Accuray, 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. 

Accuray is a global leader in the field of radiosurgery, dedicated to providing an improved quality of life and a non-surgical treatment option for those diagnosed with cancer. Accuray develops and markets the CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System, the world’s only such system designed to treat tumors anywhere in the body non-invasively. To date, more than 155 CyberKnife Systems have been installed in leading hospitals in the Americas, Europe and Asia, and have been used to treat over 50,000 patients worldwide. The CyberKnife System delivers high-dose radiation with pinpoint precision, which minimizes damage to surrounding healthy tissue and eliminates the need for invasive head or body stabilization frames.

Euan is recognized as an international expert in the field of radiation therapy, with over 20 years of experience in research, clinical practice, consulting and corporate management. Euan has been Accuray’s President and CEO since March 2002. Previously, he was President and CEO of Photoelectron Corporation, a manufacturer of miniature x-ray technology for medical and industrial markets. There, he led product diversification and negotiated strategic partnerships with international market leaders such as Carl Zeiss and Cordis Corporation, a Johnson & Johnson Company. Euan earned his Bachelors, Masters and Doctorate degrees in Physics and Radiation Physics from the University of London.

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 .