About Suvi Health

Recovery begins with clarity and confidence.

Suvi Health is a quiet, trusted presence that turns complex medical discussions into shared understanding, empowering patients to participate in their recovery with dignity.

Our Team

Kelly Benning, CEO and Co-Founder of Suvi Health

Kelly Benning

CEO & Co-Founder
“What we’re building at Suvi Health is different because it doesn’t just support the care team, it activates the patient and the people who love them. That’s where the real opportunity to transform care lives.”
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Kelly Benning is CEO and co-founder of Suvi Health, where she leads the company’s mission to address the hospital capacity crisis using ambient AI to activate patients and caregivers, reduce length of stay, and ease the burden on care teams. She brings decades of experience building and scaling high-growth digital health companies to the role, with a track record of turning bold ideas into market-defining outcomes.

Kelly specializes in taking breakthrough healthcare technologies from concept to commercialization, guiding organizations through FDA clearance, fundraising, strategic partnerships, and rapid scale. She is known for building high-performing executive teams, creating clarity in complex environments, and driving measurable growth through disciplined execution.

Before Suvi Health, Kelly served as President of LiveMetric, where she led the company from clinical development through FDA clearance and secured partnerships with major payers and large employer plans, generating significant pre-FDA revenue. She also built research collaborations with Mayo Clinic, Columbia, and the University of Chicago to advance clinical validation. Earlier, she served as Vice President of Watson Health AI at IBM, where she drove exponential growth in the opportunity funnel and helped earn the Best in KLAS award.

Kelly also serves on the board of Prime Health, where she contributes deep expertise in digital health strategy, market development, and commercialization.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology from the University of Colorado and resides in Denver, CO.

Shawn Albert, CTO and Co-Founder of Suvi Health

Shawn Albert

CTO & Co-Founder
“I’ve spent my career building AI in healthcare, and the gap between what the technology can do and what actually reaches the bedside has always been too wide. Suvi Health exists to close it.”
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Shawn Albert is CTO and co-founder of Suvi Health, where he leads technical strategy and product architecture. He brings nearly a decade of healthcare technology experience to the role, with a focus on closing the gap between cutting-edge AI and real clinical impact.

Shawn specializes in architecting and deploying production-grade AI systems in healthcare, with deep expertise in agentic workflows, ambient scribes, modern data platforms, and HIPAA-compliant cloud infrastructure. Before Suvi Health, he was CTO at Aesthetics360 and Director of AI and Innovation at Belle, where he architected the company’s MLOps foundation and agentic AI workflows for clinical documentation. Earlier in his career, Shawn led MLOps and large language model initiatives as the Lead Data Scientist at Healthfirst and held senior data science roles at CVS Health and Blue Cross Blue Shield, giving him a working view of the payer, provider, and health tech sides of the ecosystem.

Shawn holds an M.S. in Computer Science and an MBA from the University of Chicago, along with a B.A. from Vanderbilt University. He splits his time between Brooklyn, NY, and a farmhouse near Cooperstown.

How We Work

We’re a small, early-stage team building in healthcare. These values aren’t posters on a wall. They’re how we decide when the call is hard.

Patients first, then clinicians, then us.

When priorities collide, the patient outcome wins. Then the care team’s time. Our preferences come last.

Earn trust before scale.

In healthcare, trust is the bottleneck. We’d rather ship one excellent experience than ten mediocre ones everywhere.

Compliance is the product.

HIPAA, SOC 2, two-party consent, and clinical safety aren’t a tax on the work. They are the work, built in from day one.

Ambient over interruptive.

The best AI is the kind people barely notice. We design for the moments they’re already in, not for our roadmap.

Default to candor.

With co-founders, partners, and clients especially. If something’s broken, we say so on the first call, not the third.

Ship, then learn.

We ship and learn nonstop. Tight loops, real artifacts, real feedback.

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