Newport Medical's Chief, Hong-Lin Du, Joins ABL Organization

Santa Ana, CA — July 1, 2010 — Hong-Lin Du, President of Newport Medical Instruments, 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.

Newport Medical Instruments is the largest privately-owned ventilator company in the United States. Du joined Newport Medical, in 1997, as Director of Clinical Research and became VP of Medical Affairs, in 2000, and was promoted to President, in 2001.

Newport Medical Instruments has designed and manufactured ventilators that are versatile and affordable since 1981. Its ventilators are distributed in over 116 countries. The company's products are used for all ages, ranging from neonates, pediatrics to adults, and for various environments, ranging from ICU, subacute, transport, home care, and emergency preparedness.

Previously, Du was with Tokibo Co. Ltd, a medical device trading company in Tokyo, Japan. Before that, he was a Clinical and Research Fellow at Tokyo University Hospital in anesthesiology, resuscitation, and pain clinic.

Du is a Member of ASTM International and the American Thoracic Society. He holds U.S. patents in the area of respiration and mechanical ventilation. He earned his MD degree from Beijing University Medical School, in China; his Ph.D. from Tokyo University, in Japan; and his MBA from National University, in San Diego. Du speaks English, Chinese and Japanese.

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 .