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.

Eduardo Fonseca is the CEO of XCath, a Houston- and Pangyo-based medtech company building endovascular robotic systems and steerable guidewires to treat stroke and other cerebrovascular conditions. A former Panamanian ambassador to the UAE and Saudi Arabia turned investor and operator, he joined the XCath board in 2019 and took the helm in 2023, also serving as interim CEO of sister company EndoQuest Robotics. Under his leadership XCath has logged a string of world firsts, including the first public remote mechanical thrombectomy demonstration and, in 2026, the world's first remote robotic intervention in a stroke patient.
Sovato is a Santa Barbara health-tech company building the first comprehensive, system-agnostic platform for remote robotic surgery and procedures - what the industry calls telesurgery. Co-founded by surgical-robotics pioneer Yulun Wang and healthcare strategist Cynthia Perazzo, Sovato lets a skilled surgeon operate a robotic system from hundreds or thousands of miles away, aiming to extend top surgical care to patients regardless of where they live. The company has raised $41M across its rounds and helped enable the longest-distance telesurgery ever completed.