Our Team

The team rebuilding post-acute care.

Most health-tech companies are built by technologists who visited a clinic once. Zanium is built by the people who lived the problem. Clinical, technical, legal, and operational judgment, under one mission.

Clinical

Medicine at the core

A physician and a nurse leader own every clinical rule before it ships. The product reasons the way they do.

Technical

Built, not bolted on

AI architects who rebuilt from first principles, rather than wrapping a model around legacy software.

Legal

Compliance by design

Counsel at the table from day one, because in healthcare the rules are the product.

Operational

Run by operators

People who have stood in the agency, fought the EMR, and watched good clinicians burn out.

Leadership

The people behind the platform.

Every name here owns a piece of the mission. Together they cover the full arc of post-acute care, from the bedside to the boardroom.

Shahid Khwaja
Shahid KhwajaCPA
Founder & CEO

Built Zanium after watching the documentation system miss the quiet decline in his own parents' care. Sets the mission and guards head-to-toe primacy.

Mariam Aziz
Mariam AzizMD
Chief Medical Officer

Leads the clinical evidence behind every recommendation and the outcomes studies that prove them, with deep ties to leading Chicago health systems.

Ramesh Rangarajan
Ramesh Rangarajan
Chief Technology Officer

Owns the architecture and the integration layer, and authored the AI reliability principles that keep the platform safe in clinical hands.

Fauzia Hoda
Fauzia HodaBSN, RN
Chief Nursing Officer

The clinical conscience of the platform. Signs off on every critical rule before it reaches a clinician at the bedside.

Misbah Ulhaq
Misbah Ulhaq
Chief Technical Architect

Builds the infrastructure that turns clinician judgment into training signal, so the platform gets sharper with every visit.

Muhammad Aasem
Muhammad Aasem
AI Architecture Leader

Leads the clinical model work, balancing frontier reasoning against an owned model built for the economics of scale.

Saira Haider
Saira HaiderJD
General Counsel

Keeps data sovereignty, intellectual property, and compliance ahead of the product, not behind it.

Jennifer Dagen
Jennifer DagenMBA
Chief Operations Officer

Turns the platform into a repeatable motion, from pilot to live agency, without the eighteen-month implementations the industry accepts.

Beyond the Core

Backed by depth on every side of the table.

Our board and advisors bring clinical authority, go-to-market reach, and capital experience to a team already deep in the work.

Clinical

Health-system leadership

Advisors connected to leading post-acute and hospital systems guide our outcomes work.

Strategy

Operating experience

Former senior operators who have scaled care organizations across many sites.

Go-to-market

Network depth

Advisors with warm reach into national providers and multi-agency operators.

Capital

Investor guidance

Experienced hands across venture and private equity who know the post-acute landscape.

Join Us

We are looking for people who want this fixed as badly as we do.

Clinicians, engineers, and operators who would rather build the future of post-acute care than complain about its present.