Strategic Angels, where Sheldon is Managing Director, provides technology and strategic services including consulting CTO services for companies that want to differentiate their products through innovative software. Areas of specialty include healthcare and life sciences, cybersecurity, startup advising, due diligence for startup and technology acquisitions, CTO mentoring, and applied AI. Sheldon is an advisor to startups and also a judge & mentor at MassChallenge. Sheldon was Chief Scientist and VP at Progress Software responsible for innovation and new product strategy across the company’s product lines including supporting M&A. He led Progress' efforts in advanced analytics, big data, and cloud-based mobile development tools. He initiated, catalyzed, and led world-wide teams leading to Progress products named “most innovative” by IDC and “leader” by Forrester.Sheldon was VP at startup Cendura (acquired by CA) delivering leading-edge systems management products to major players in financial, healthcare, and Internet industries. At WebMD (from startup to $1B/yr revenue) Sheldon held senior management positions in application development and technology strategy. He led the clinical applications group and was Chief Security Officer. At Bachman (startup to IPO) he led development of AI-based database design products.Specialties: Leading software and services innovation, strategy, design, architecture and development. M&A. Cybersecurity, Entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship. Cloud computing & SaaS. Visual and predictive analytics. Applied AI. Healthcare information architecture. Enterprise architecture and integration.
Listed skills include Saas, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Enterprise Architecture, and 27 others.