Nick Therkelsen

Nick Therkelsen co-leads our global Advanced Analytics and Healthcare and Life Sciences interlock.

Nick works with his clients to apply AI and Generative AI technology to their businesses. In particular, he works with healthcare and life sciences customers to support them through the disruption that technology is bringing to the sector. Nick has experience applying AI in genomics, drug discovery, diagnostics, clinical operations, commercial operations and more across medical devices, pharma and providers.

Prior to Bain, Nick founded and was the CEO of leading Artificial Intelligence consultancy Max Kelsen, where he worked across sectors to build and deploy over 100 AI systems. Nick's team was awarded a global customer of the year award from Google and an AI & ML partner of the year award from Amazon Web Services, and they were published multiple times in top-tier academic journals, among other achievements.

Nick holds a Bachelor of Laws with Honours and a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Queensland.

In his personal time, Nick is an active investor in AI, HealthTech and BioTech startups.