# John Bennett

Managing Director, Citrin Cooperman Digital | AI & Microsoft Growth Leader | Healthcare AI (Azure OpenAI, Epic/FHIR) | Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Copilot | Ex-Microsoft, RSM, Sutter Health

- Location: San Francisco Bay Area
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-p-bennett/
- Website: https://john-p-bennett.pages.dev/

## About
John Bennett is an enterprise AI and Microsoft growth leader with deep roots in healthcare. At Citrin Cooperman Digital he leads mid-market engagements across Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Azure data and AI, Copilot and agentic automation. Before that he led AI and automation for major U.S. health systems at RSM, was Director of Industry Solutions (Healthcare) at Microsoft, and was Chief of Strategy & Business Development at Sutter Health. He has also founded and built a software company, worked at Oracle, and run a P&L.

## Selected results
- Microsoft: 20+ customer commits for Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare (Providence, Intermountain, Cleveland Clinic, CVS, Sutter Health, Wellstar, Scripps, Inova, Yale New Haven); $6M direct and $279M related revenue; led 120+ workstreams.
- RSM: GPT-powered revenue cycle automation with a 60-85% reduction in manual processing; AI patient-messaging triage with 3:1-5:1 ROI; Azure OpenAI and Epic/FHIR.
- Sutter Health: launched a $6M recurring revenue stream; built a $250M pipeline with $45.5M in active proposals.
- Hunt Energy IQ: VP with P&L ownership, a 25+ person team and a $10M+ budget.
- TransDecisions (founder): raised $6.2M; sold the Linear Referencing business unit to Bentley Systems; positioned the Logistics Optimization unit for acquisition by Servigistics (later acquired by PTC for $220M).

## Experience
- 2026-present: Managing Director, Citrin Cooperman Digital
- 2023-2026: Director, Artificial Intelligence & Automation, RSM
- 2021-2023: Director, Industry Solutions - Healthcare Industry Specialist, Microsoft
- 2014-2021: Chief of Strategy & Business Development, Sutter Health
- 2008-2013: Vice President, Hunt Energy IQ (Hunt Consolidated)
- 2006-2008: Business Development - Principal Solution Engineer, Identity Management, Oracle
- 2000-2006: Founder & VP Business Development, TransDecisions
- 1998-2000: Solution Architect, Oracle

## Education
The University of Texas at Austin, BA in Geography and Business.

## Expertise
Enterprise AI, generative AI, agentic AI, Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot, healthcare AI, health systems, revenue cycle automation, Epic, HL7 FHIR, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Azure, go-to-market strategy, enterprise sales, business development, strategic partnerships, P&L leadership, M&A.