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Brian Miller
Brian Miller is the CEO of Sovato, the Santa Barbara company building the first platform to let health systems deploy and scale remote robotic surgery. An electrical engineer turned roboticist with a PhD from Northwestern in haptics, he spent his first job at Computer Motion writing software for the AESOP and ZEUS robots and watched the 2001 Operation Lindbergh, the first transatlantic remote surgery. Twenty-three years at Intuitive Surgical followed, where he rose from control-systems analyst to Chief Digital Officer and Head of Digital and AI Strategy. In April 2026 he returned to the frontier he started on, taking Sovato from early market development toward its first patient programs in 2027.
Daniel Garren
Daniel Garren is an Investor Relations Analyst at Image Navigation, an Israeli-American medical device company building the IGI 2.0 hybrid surgical navigation and robotics system for dental implant surgery. Reporting directly to the CEO, he sits at the intersection of finance and frontier medtech, helping translate a small Jerusalem-and-New-Jersey engineering shop's high-precision technology into a story investors can believe in. With a Columbia background and medical studies at Oxford, he brings a clinician-curious eye to capital.