Your health. Understood.
We build regulated clinical AI for secondary care hospitals.
Sanome was founded on a simple observation: hospitals hold more data than clinical teams can meaningfully use, and the pressure on those teams keeps growing.
The insight needed to act earlier is already there. We make it visible – at the right time, within the EPR your teams already use.
Sanome exists to bridge the gap between data and decision in healthcare.
The problem we are solving
Right now, 97% of hospital data goes unused.
Clinicians are overstretched, operating at 95%+ bed capacity, spending time hunting for information across fragmented systems rather than caring for patients.
Meanwhile, signals of deterioration are building quietly in the data, undetected until it’s too late to act efficiently or safely.
Sanome is bringing this kind of insight to the bedside at scale.
How we work
Sanome is closing that gap through three things:
Full patient picture
Real-time access to full patient picture – structured and unstructured data, live from your EPR.
Actionable intelligence
Certified AI that turns data into risk scores and guideline-aligned recommendations your clinicians can act on immediately.
Built into your workflow
Co-designed with hospital and EPR teams to work within existing workflows — not alongside them.
We don't ask clinical teams to change how they work. We make existing workflows and tooling smarter.
Built to be trusted.
We are a specialist, multidisciplinary team united by a shared belief that AI in healthcare must be safe, explainable, and genuinely useful.
Our products are certified medical devices, designed and validated to the highest regulatory standards. We build in the open, with the clinicians, for clinicians.
Meet our leadership team
Benedikt von Thüngen
Founder & CEO
Benedikt is Founder & CEO at Sanome. His lifelong vision is to build a Human Digital Twin that supports clinical teams to understand health changes earlier and better. He has a deep background in biosciences, venture tech and extensive experience scaling ventures across areas such as AI, enterprise software, and healthcare. Benedikt brings a unique combination of visionary thinking, high energy and practical implementation.
Outside of Sanome, Benedikt is a guest lecturer at the University of Cambridge, a mentor at the Royal Society of Engineering and an avid kite surfer.
Paul Aykroyd
Co-founder & COO
Paul is the Co-founder and COO of Sanome, bringing decades of experience in building and scaling technical organisations across industries. Prior to Sanome, Paul served as VP of Engineering and Operations at Speechmatics, where he worked alongside Benedikt. During his tenure, he successfully scaled the team from 8 AI researchers to over 120 staff across multiple geographies, driving operational excellence and fostering innovation.
At Sanome, Paul applies his extensive expertise to execute the company’s mission, leveraging his deep understanding of organisational growth and technical leadership.
Beyond his role at Sanome, Paul is committed to supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs, mentoring tech founders on building high-performing teams and preparing organisations for rapid scaling. In his personal time, Paul is an avid cook and an enthusiast of board sports.
Saduf Ali-Drakesmith
Commercial VP
Saduf is a commercial leader in digital health with over 20 years’ experience working with the NHS and global healthtech organisations. With a background spanning frontline healthcare, technology and commercial strategy, she specialises in helping health systems adopt innovations that deliver real clinical, operational and financial value. She is known for bridging the gap between clinical teams, executives and digital leaders to ensure solutions deliver meaningful value.
At Sanome, Saduf focuses on building trusted relationships with health systems and health tech partners to unlock the power of data to improve outcomes for patients and clinicians.
Outside work, she enjoys travel, great food, and championing women in healthcare and technology.
Hansen Tsui
Product Lead
A McGill University Anatomy & Cell Biology graduate, Hansen brings over a decade of health-tech product leadership to Sanome, combining clinical insight, entrepreneurial experience, and a data-driven mindset.
He helped grow an early-stage digital health startup, led patient acquisition at ZAVA, and most recently leading the "Care Delivery" part of the product at Best Buy Health / Current Health, focussing on patient and HCP experiences, as well as helping integrate connected devices with major U.S. health systems, for Hospital-At-Home and Chronic Care Management programmes.
At Sanome, Hansen focuses on scaling regulated AI-CDS products, driving clinician adoption, and proving real-world clinical and commercial impact. Outside work, he’s often on a tennis court, exploring art and food, or fresh off a mountain trek - most recently in Bhutan.
Eddie Pease
Engineering & IG Lead
Eddie is Engineering & Information Governance Lead at Sanome, responsible for EPR integrations, making sure that our infrastructure is robust and secure and ensuring compliance with relevant cyber security and data protection standards.
Eddie has a BSc in Physics from Oxford and has 7 years’ experience working as a data scientist / software engineer in highly regulated industries (pharmaceutical, healthcare, financial services), including being the technical co-founder of a company in the pharmaceutical industry predicting the probability of success of late-stage clinical trials.
Dr Andrew Creagh
AI/ML Lead
Andrew leads the AI/ML team at Sanome, bringing a decade of experience in AI and digital health across industry and academia. His work has focused on remote patient monitoring, developing personalised clinical decision support systems and digital biomarkers to predict health outcomes in neurological conditions.
Andrew holds a D.Phil. (PhD) in Clinical Machine Learning from the University of Oxford and degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Trinity College, Dublin. He was a Junior Research Fellow at St Cross College, Oxford, and remains a Visiting Researcher at Oxford.
In addition to his research, Andrew has taught multiple undergraduate and postgraduate courses in digital health, wearables, and machine learning. His industry experience spans major pharmaceutical companies, including GSK and Roche, as well as medical device regulatory work with the HPRA (Health Products Regulatory Authority).
Nita Shah
QARA Lead
Nita joined as QARA Lead having worked in quality assurance and regulatory affairs of medical devices, for over 20 years. Having started out in IVD and hardware medical devices, she has spent the last 5 years focused on Software as a Medical Device. She has worked with the NHS, Pharma, innovative tech companies and is thrilled to be on the Sanome journey.
Outside of Sanome, her interests include long walks with her dog, travel, and music.
Edith Avornyo
Clinical Deployment Lead
Edith is an experienced clinical leader and digital health strategist with nearly three decades of nursing experience across acute, community, and integrated care settings within the NHS.
Before joining Sanome, Edith held senior roles in cardiology, Leadership and Management, most recently leading borough-wide virtual ward and NHS@Home services. She holds an Executive MBA in Leadership and Management and an MSc in Preventive Cardiology from Imperial College London.
At Sanome, Edith leads clinical deployment and adoption of MEMORI, Sanome’s AI-powered infection early warning solution, ensuring safe, effective integration within NHS workflows.
Outside of work, she enjoys listening to podcasts and exploring new ideas in digital health.
Andy Sullivan
Fractional CFO
Andy is a seasoned accountant, specialising in providing fractional CFO services for growing businesses. He has a background in corporate finance and investment banking, helping scale-ups achieve financial success and operational stability.
Away from business, Andy spends time with his three young children, and mini-dachshund, Stanley!
Our advisors
Dr Alifa Isaacs-Itua
Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr John Chinegwundoh
Consultant Respiratory Physician
Dr Veronica Choro-Mari
Consultant Pharmacist and Infectious Diseases Specialist
Pam Garside
Chair, Cambridge Angels
James Bethell
Former health minister and
Member of the House of Lords
Dr Michelle Tempest
Advisor and Author
Prof Carole Longson
Independent Senior Advisor, Life Science
Policy, HTA and Market Access
Dr Arrash Yassaee
HealthTech clinician and
national policy professional