John Kesler -Director

John serves as a Director for Ascension Pro with responsibility for operations and general management. John is a skilled businessman and a visionary John started his budding career as an internet entrepreneur in 1994 with his first business venture, a multimedia firm focused on providing clients with custom online multimedia marketing and collateral. From this experience, John went on to co-found Evols, a web development and application shop. Within one year Evolvs was acquired by Velonet, a larger multinational web and online service servicing international clients such as Marker, Iomega and Novell.

He has served as the Vice President of Business Development for Matchbin, Inc., a web based barter company and most recently John spent a year learning the ins and outs of eCommerce at the highest level working for Amazon.com.


John is an entrepreneur with an immense skill set, ranging from business management and development to programming and web architecture design. He attended the University of Utah, where he studied business management and political science and Christian Arbriets Universitat in Kiel where he studied German and international business.

Jonathan Dunn - Director

Jonathan Dunn serves as a director for Ascension Pro with responsibility for sales, marketing, and channel partner development. His strong business and marketing background has provided the necessary experience to lead these marketing and sales efforts. Prior to joining Ascension Pro in 2011, Dunn served as the Director of Marketing and Product Development for Lighthouse Signs Inc. As Director, Dunn redesigned its current product line and took its new product line to market in under 18 months. Much of his time was spent monitoring short- and long-term product development goals while procuring contracts with distributors in the United States and six foreign markets.

In addition to his management and marketing accomplishments, Dunn completed his Bachelors of Science degree in Aeronautical Science and an MBA from Westminster College with an emphasis in Business Development.

John T. Kesler J.D. - General Counsel

Mr. Kesler is the co-founder and past president for over a decade of Woodbury and Kesler, a Salt Lake City based law firm, who has specialized in commercial law.  Mr. Kesler also consults in the arena of local and global community building, having served as director of the US healthy community movement and directed a Kellogg Foundation funded grant working with all of the major community movements, such as sustainable, livable, etc.  He is president of the non-profit Salt Lake Center for Engaging Community which models local and global best practices.  In recent years Mr. Kesler has been chair of five nonprofit organizations including the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics with close to a billion dollar annual budget.

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