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Is the CEO, General Partner & Managing Director/Founder of CitareTx Investment Partners, a medical device venture capital fund; Managing Director of CitareTx Management LLC, the venture fund management, incubator & operating company; Chairman & CEO/Founder of three CitareTx portfolio companies: EMIT Corporation, Houston Medical Robotics, Inc., and Coagulex, Inc.; and President & CEO of Yguana Entertainment, Inc. Mr. Sheldon also serves as a member of the University of Minnesota Discovery Capital Strategic Advisory Board; member of the University of Texas Medical Branch Health Technology Seed Fund Investment Review Committee; member of the University of Houston Cougar Venture Fund Board of Advisors; member of the Medical Bridges Advisory Counsel; and was a Houston Technology Center Board Director until it merged with Houston Exponential. Mr. Sheldon was also the Founder/Chairman & CEO of IDev Technologies, Inc. sold to Abbott in August 2013 for $310 Million; Founder/Chairman & CEO of Nittany Polymedics, Inc; Director of Technology Development at MD Anderson Cancer Center; founder of the Technology Management Office at The University of Texas Medical Branch; and held various leadership positions at Rockwell International/Rockwell Space Operations Company. Mr. Sheldon holds a B.S. Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics, with distinction, from the University of Minnesota and a M.B.A. from the University of Houston – Clear Lake.