Ashley van Heteren
Building the future of AI-native biotech. // Previously Partner, QuantumBlack - AI by McKinsey
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Executive Overview
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· 11 mos
- 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 UniversityBachelor of Science (BS)
Nuclear and radiological engineering
Georgia Institute of TechnologyExecutive Relationship Map
Reports To
Ashley van Heteren
Vice Chair & President
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Technology Officer
Chief Operating Officer
Skills & Expertise
AnalyticsProduct DevelopmentDigital StrategyOrganizational DesignMarket EntryHealthcareManagement ConsultingBusiness TransformationStrategic ConsultingMedical DevicesBusiness StrategyCompetitive AnalysisGrowth StrategiesBig DataStart-upsPharmaceutical Industry