Dennis H. Holtschneider

Dennis Holtschneider
Dennis Holtschneider
Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer of Ascension Health
Incumbent
Assumed office July 1, 2017
Personal details
Born	Dennis Henry Holtschneider (1962-01-14) January 14, 1962 (age 55) Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Alma mater	Niagara University Mary Immaculate Seminary Harvard University

Dennis Henry Holtschneider (born January 14, 1962) is Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer for Ascension Health. He has oversight responsibility for the Ascension Solutions Division subsidiaries of Ascension Information Services and the Ascension Ministry Service Center, as well as Ascension’s national Strategy and Advocacy functions.

Previously, he was the president of DePaul University in Chicago, United States, serving from July 2004 through June 2017.

A native of Detroit, Michigan, he is a 1985 graduate of Niagara University with a bachelor's degree in Mathematics. He is a member of the Congregation of the Mission, an order of Catholic priests founded by St. Vincent de Paul and commonly referred to as Vincentians. He received a doctorate in Higher Education Administration from Harvard University in 1997.

Holtschneider served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Niagara University from 2000 to 2004. He taught and served in several academic administrative roles at St. John's University between 1996 and 1999. Holtschneider was the Director/Rector of Vincentian College Seminary in Ozone Park, New York from 1989 to 1992. Since 2008, he has been a faculty member in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, teaching seminars and institutes on strategy, governance and management development, among others. He also taught summer institutes on strategic planning at the Villanova University Center for the Study of Church Management from 2006-2010. He served also as Clinical Associate Professor of Higher Education in the Graduate School of Education at the University at Buffalo.