Sheldon Drobny(1945-2020)
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Sheldon Drobny is Founder, Chairman and Managing Director of Paradigm
Group II, an investment firm with over $200 million in investments in
over 40 companies. Drobny is also a Board Member of numerous
Paradigm Group II portfolio companies, including XML Global (Chairman),
Cypress Bioscience, TL Contact, and Vertaport, Inc. Prior to entering
public accounting, he had a number of years of taxation experience with
the Internal Revenue Service. In recent years Drobny has entered
the mass media industry. He is co-founder of Air America and Nova M
Radio Networks, and is the author of Road to Air America, published by
Select Books in 2004. Drobny is also a very active supporter of the
Chicago Jewish community. He is Benefactor of the Sheldon and Anita
Drobny Interdisciplinary Program for the Study of Jewish Culture and
Society at the University of Illinois, and is active with the Jewish
Children's Bureau and Jewish United Fund. Drobny is a member of the
NASD and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the
Illinois C.P.A Society and several other professional associations, and
holds a BS degree in Accounting from Roosevelt University.