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Sergio Aguirre
Sergio Aguirre is the founder and CEO of EchoPixel, a Silicon Valley medical imaging company that turns standard CT, MRI and ultrasound scans into interactive 3D holograms doctors can grab, rotate and dissect in open space. An electrical engineer from Tecnologico de Monterrey with a graduate focus on stereoscopic imaging, he spent more than 15 years in visualization systems before founding EchoPixel in 2012. His True3D platform earned FDA clearance and has been used in congenital heart defect detection and structural heart procedures, built on his conviction that doctors should not have to solve a 3D problem with a 2D picture.
Maggie Nixon
Maggie Nixon is the CEO of Capstan Medical, a Santa Cruz medtech startup building a robotic platform and catheter-delivered implants for minimally invasive mitral and tricuspid heart valve replacement. A nationally ranked high-school shot put and discus thrower, she earned a Stanford athletic scholarship, designed her own biomechanical engineering major, and then spent more than two decades at Intuitive Surgical across instrument design, clinical development, quality and regulatory, and China operations and strategy. In 2022 she reunited with her first Intuitive boss, Dan Wallace, to lead Capstan, where in 2025 her team completed the world's first robotic catheter mitral valve replacements in humans after raising a $110M Series C.