John Kuelper

John Kuelper is a Managing Director at Ascension Ventures, a strategic venture capital and growth equity firm with over $800 million under management which invests in health IT, health services, medical devices, and diagnostics on behalf of thirteen of the nation’s largest non-profit health systems. John is the Founder and President of Qualia Holdings LLC, a platform for systems biology and software ventures. He has advised or worked for several investment firms (Adams Street Partners, Sterling Partners, Abundant Venture Partners), medical technology 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 commercial software developer. John earned JD and MBA degrees from Northwestern University and a BA in cognitive neuroscience from Washington University in St. Louis. In 2014 he was elected to the Kauffman Fellows Society.