Built for patient, mission-aligned capital — and the nurses it serves.
AIWIZN is an AI-driven nursing education and competency mastery platform from Aten Inc. We pair multi-agentic AI systems with evidence-based learning science and clinical advisory rigour to attack the nursing workforce crisis — not as a supply problem, but as the retention and competency development problem it actually is.
Every design decision is evidence-anchored. Every advisor on this page is credentialed in the discipline they advise on. Every claim we make is sourced.
Leadership & Advisors
Building the future of workforce intelligence.
Credentialed expertise across clinical, academic, and financial domains.
Founder & CEO · AIWIZN / Aten Inc.
Thomas K Vaidhyan
Architect of the AIWIZN multi-agentic learning platform and founder of Aten Inc. Serial ed-tech entrepreneur across immersive learning, serious games, and AI-driven training simulations, with research partnerships at NC State, Virginia Tech, and Duke. Founding board member of BEST NC and Research Triangle High School. Leads platform strategy, product vision, and investor relations across the 14-month build roadmap.
Deputy Executive Director, Tennessee Population Health Consortium·University of Tennessee School of Health Sciences — School of Medicine
Annie Baby· MA, MBA, MSN, FNP-BC
Valid active RN and Advanced Nurse Practitioner licensure. Experienced clinical, operational, and business leader across health-system organisations. Pairs frontline nursing practice with health-economics, analytics, and value-based-care strategy — informing how AIWIZN translates nursing-education frameworks into scalable clinical learning architectures.
Medical Director, WakeMed Center for Innovative Learning·WakeMed · Associate Program Director, UNC Emergency Medicine
Dr. Graham Snyder· MD, FACEP
Longest-serving clinical champion of simulation-based training at WakeMed. Co-developed AIWIZN's clinical validation framework. Engineer-turned-emergency-physician who runs WakeMed's Center for Innovative Learning — a high-fidelity training facility serving thousands of clinicians annually. Guides SIMULUS physiological fidelity and COGNITA clinical validity.
Managing Director · Head of Digital Health·EisnerAmper LLC
Arvind Kumar
Healthcare-technology strategist with 25+ years across executive and advisory roles — former CIO at Cincinnati Children's, SVP at Xerox Healthcare, and digital-risk leadership at a Big 4 firm. Adjunct faculty at Harvard School of Public Health, Northeastern, and Suffolk. Advises AIWIZN on responsible AI deployment, clinical validation, and healthcare-technology risk.
Surgeon · Division Chief, Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery · Co-Executive Director, FastTraCS·University of North Carolina
Dr. Erin T. Carey· MD, MSCR
UNC surgeon-innovator leading the Division of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery and co-leading FastTraCS, UNC's clinical-innovation accelerator. Pairs procedural rigour with translational research and device design — informing AIWIZN's PRAXIS and NARRATIVE work on procedural fidelity, clinical-judgement formation, and innovation pathways from bedside insight to validated practice.
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