Mark Burke, CEO of Satellite Healthcare, Joins ABL Organization

Santa Ana, CA — October 1, 2009 — Mark Burke, CEO of Satellite Healthcare, 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.

Satellite Healthcare is one of the nation’s first and leading providers of dialysis services and kidney disease care. With its affiliated services – Satellite Dialysis (in-center hemodialysis), WellBound (prevention and home dialysis), and Satellite Research, the company provides early patient wellness education, personalized clinical services and a complete range of therapy choices. Their comprehensive offering allows Satellite Healthcare to advance the standard of chronic kidney disease care so patients can achieve a better life, "managing their disease, so that it doesn't manage them."

Mark has more than 25 years of experience in healthcare, 15 of which have been with Satellite. During Mark's tenure as CEO, Satellite has completed more than $200 million in acquisitions of dialysis centers, so that the company now has 50 centers across the country, and $250 million in annual revenues.  He has been responsible for incubating and launching all of Satellite's major business lines and has created an environment of creativity and innovation that encourages a strong collaborative approach to business among employees, payers, and Satellite's physician partners.

Prior to joining Satellite, Mark co-founded California Kidney Centers, which owned and operated dialysis facilities throughout Southern California and whose eventual sale represented one of the largest U.S. private dialysis transactions ever recorded. Earlier, he worked for Baxter Healthcare in sales and marketing management. Mark holds or has held Board positions with Satellite Healthcare, the Renal Leadership Council, Kidney Care Partners, California Dialysis Council, California Kidney Centers, and Asia Renal Care. He earned his undergraduate degree from San Diego State University and did his graduate work in Business Administration at Chapman University.

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 medical device), 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, San Francisco and Santa Clara County areas. More information about the ABL Organization can be found at http://www.abl.org.