Sutter Health’s Peter Anderson Joins ABL Organization

Orange, CA — July 23, 2009 — Peter Anderson, Senior Vice President, Strategy & Business Development for Sutter Health, 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.

Sutter Health is one of the nation's leading not-for-profit networks of community-based healthcare providers, with 44,000 employees delivering high-quality care in more than 100 Northern California communities. It’s also the regional leader in infant deliveries, neonatology, orthopedics, pediatrics and cancer care services. Sutter Health supports more than two dozen locally run acute-care hospitals, as well as physician organizations, medical research facilities, region-wide home health, hospice and occupational health networks, and long-term care centers.

Peter’s business interests, experience, and skill sets include corporate strategy, market segmentation, physician group practice development and administration, hospital development and administration, healthcare finance, and macroeconomics. Previously, Peter was President at Carolinas Physicians Network and Senior VP at Carolinas Healthcare System (CHS), the largest system in the Carolinas and the third largest non-profit public healthcare system in the nation. From 1992 to 2004, Peter helped develop – through M&As and organic growth – a 550-member physician group as part of the $3.5 billion Carolinas Healthcare System. CHS owns, leases or manages 23 hospitals in North and South Carolina, including 777 bed Carolinas Medical Center, Levine Children's Hospital in Charlotte and 457-bed CMC-NorthEast in Concord. Earlier, from 1981 to 1985, Peter was a Manager at Bain & Company, a global strategy consulting firm advising Fortune 100 clients.

Peter earned his BS degree in Economics and Business Management from Brigham Young University in 1979, and his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1981, graduating in the top 3% of his class.

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 .