MediCall's CEO, John Chess, Joins ABL Organization

Santa Ana, CA — August 15, 2010 — John Chess, Founder and CEO of MediCall, 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.

MediCall is a global clinical healthcare services outsourcing (HSO) provider for the workers' compensation and group healthcare services markets. Its services are designed to improve performance, decrease turn-around and response time, reduce costs and increase revenues for clients by delivering high-quality, value-added clinical services. In addition to its U.S. operations, MediCall offers global Service Centers staffed with healthcare professionals, enabling MediCall clients to easily extend the reach of their medical and disability management programs. The company's network of healthcare staff includes experienced nurses, physicians, and pharmacists.

With its breadth and depth of in-house healthcare expertise and world-class, secure healthcare IT infrastructure, MediCall is uniquely positioned to offer top-quality, cost-efficient healthcare-related services. The industry's tremendous (and growing) staffing challenge due to the U.S. nursing shortage, combined with cost containment pressures faced by today's insurance market, make MediCall's services an attractive option for virtually any workers' comp or healthcare insurance-related company looking to achieve significant and measurable benefits. MediCall services are HIPAA compliant with multiple URAC accreditations.

John's career includes over 25 years of entrepreneurial experience in organizations that have either pioneered, utilized or provided a variety of outsourced services, including manufacturing, design, support and other specialized services. Prior to starting MediCall in 2003, he was a founder or co-founder of a number of other companies, including Cosine Communications, which pioneered a concept of an IP service delivery platform to the telecom industry. Cosine raised $187.5 million and then completed an IPO in September 2000, raising over $240 million. John founded Apex Data, which led the industry in development of wireless PCMCIA and proprietary form factor modems for notebook computers. They were sold as outsourced OEM products under the ThinkPad proven label by IBM and as Noteworthy modems by Toshiba. Apex Data merged with Smart Modular Technologies, and shortly after the merger, completed a public offering. Earlier, John held a variety of management positions with UXcomm, Piiceon, Computer Peripherals International and the Bethlehem Steel Corporation.

John earned his Masters degree in International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management and his BS degree from California State University. He enjoys golf, cycling, fishing, hunting, scuba diving, and flying.
 

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 .