Reuben Sandler, CEO of Intelligent Optical Systems, Joins ABL Organization

Santa Ana, CA — June 30, 2010 — Reuben Sandler, CEO of Intelligent Optical Systems, 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.

Intelligent Optical Systems (IOS) specializes in the design and development of proprietary optical communications, sensing, monitoring, instrumentation, and signal processing technologies for telecommunications, medical equipment and devices, aerospace and other markets worldwide.

IOS’s technological capabilities span sensor-related functions, from fundamental signal transduction to networked data transmission, opto-electric detection, and high-level signal processing. The company’s patent portfolio enables it to provide customers with new products enjoying unique market positions. IOS's success in commercialization of its technology includes working with Ford Motor Co. to develop the hydrogen sensing system for Ford's fuel cell vehicle program; with The Boeing Co. to develop oxygen and hydrogen sensors for its booster rocket project; and a joint venture with National Technical Systems to develop and market IOS's strain and acoustic emission sensor technology. IOS has also spun off a company, OptiNetrics, which designs and manufactures components for telecom markets. IOS has received major contracts from TSWG, as well as several U.S. government agencies to develop and commercialize new systems that will give early warning of chemical- and biological-warfare attacks.

Earlier in his career, Reuben was CEO of IPA Information Systems and Founder of MediVox, both medical software companies. He was also brought into R&D Laboratories, a specialized pharmaceutical firm, which was sold to Watson Pharmaceuticals. Reuben has held professorships at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, University of Chicago, University of Hawaii, and Technion University in Haifa, Israel.

Reuben earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Chicago, and is now on that University's Dean’s Visiting Committee that helps create entrepreneurial approaches to the technologies they’re developing.
 

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 .