Ashley van Heteren
Building the future of AI-native biotech. // Previously Partner, QuantumBlack - AI by McKinsey
Stealth Startup•Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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I am a high-energy leader with a passion for helping people and accelerating innovation, in particular through artificial intelligence. After more than a decade of transformative impact helping pharmaceutical and biotech companies adopt bleeding edge AI initiatives as a Partner with McKinsey, I'm now focused on creating a next-generation biotech platform with the ambition to accelerate how precision therapies are discovered and developed. Passionate about accelerating new medicines to cancer patients and shaping the future of TechBio (with a dash of nuclear physics).
Career Timeline
- Stealth StartupCurrentOct 2025–Present· 1 yr 1 mo
- Founder, BusinessCurrentOct 2025–Present
- May 2010–Sep 2025· 15 yrs 4 mos
- PartnerMay 2010–Sep 2025
- Sep 2005–Jun 2010· 4 yrs 9 mos
- Medical Physicist training (Ph.D.)Sep 2005–Jun 2010
- 2004–2005· 1 yr
- Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Technology2004–2005
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Medical Physics
Duke University
Bachelor of Science (BS)
Nuclear and radiological engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology