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Tom Weldon is an American inventor and entrepreneur who has been active in the medical device and healthcare sector since 1987, when he started Novoste Puerto Rico. He has subsequently founded 12 companies, including Novoste, AcuFocus, AqueSys, Liposonix, and Neuronetics. He is currently Chairman and CEO of Ponce de Leon Health, and Chairman of Accuitive Medical Ventures and The Innovation Factory

Weldon holds 30 US patents for medical devices.

He serves on the Advisory Board for the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and the Purdue University Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering.

Weldon holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University and an M.B.A. in Operations and Systems Management from Indiana University. Awards include The Distinguished Engineer Alumni Award (Purdue), The Outstanding Industrial Engineer Award (Purdue), The Burton Morgan Entrepreneurship Award and The Junior Achievement IMPACT Award.

In 2004, Weldon, together with the Weldon Family Foundation, donated $10 million to Purdue University to transform the medical engineering department into the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering.