John Kuelper
Board Advisor

John Kuelper is Senior Managing Director and Head of Healthcare Technology at Ascension Ventures (AV), a strategic venture capital and growth equity firm with over $1 billion under management which invests on behalf of thirteen of the nation’s largest non-profit health systems. At AV, John focuses on investments in data-intensive enterprise and clinical technologies that serve healthcare providers and consumers. 

John is Founder and Managing Partner of Qualia Holdings LLC, a platform for enterprise deep tech ventures. He has advised or worked for several investment firms (Adams Street Partners, Sterling Partners, Abundant Venture Partners), life sciences companies (Stereotaxis, Orpheden Therapeutics), and non-profits (The Kresge Foundation, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association). John began his career as a medical researcher studying computational neuroscience and medical robotics and has over fifteen years of experience as a software developer with an emphasis on knowledge graphs and information theory. John earned JD and MBA degrees from  Northwestern University and a BA in cognitive neuroscience from Washington University in St. Louis.