He was president of the Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

�Bob is going to be a perfect complement to our Foxwoods management team,� said Bill Sherlock, former Foxwoods COO, who becomes president and CEO of Foxwoods on June 25. �I know what that job requires, and Bob�s skills, experience and personality are going to serve our guests, employees and the tribe well.�

Sheldon was raised in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. He moved to Las Vegas in 1976 to attend the College of Hotel Administration at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. At that time, he began a 13-year career with the Hilton Hotels Corporation as a reservations clerk at the Las Vegas Hilton.

While working with Hilton, Sheldon progressed through various positions in the Front Office and Hotel Division, taking posts as resident manager at the Reno Hilton, the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, where he oversaw a multi-million dollar renovation of the landmark property, and the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.

He returned to Las Vegas in 1989 to join the Golden Nugget Corporation as vice president of Hotel Operations at the Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino.

He and his wife, Beverly, will reside in the Southeastern Connecticut area.

Readers of Casino Player magazine named Foxwoods Resort Casino the �Best� in 37 separate categories for the quality and variety of its services and amenities. With more than 5,800 slot machines and 350 table games, Foxwoods Resort Casino offers gaming in a relaxing atmosphere, live entertainment with headliners from around the world, and fine dining at Mashantucket, the ancestral home of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation. Foxwoods is easily reached via Interstates 95 and 395 and is a short distance from T. F. Green Airport in Providence, R.I. and Bradley International Airport in Connecticut.