Maggie Nixon

Maggie Nixon – CEO, Capstan Medical. Capstan Medical is a start-up company developing innovative implants, catheters, and a robotic platform to treat heart valve disease.
Maggie Nixon joined Capstan in 2022 after spending more than two decades at Intuitive Surgical, where she held a wide range of increasing leadership roles across R&D, Clinical, Quality and Regulatory. Known for bringing teams together to solve complex problems, Maggie helped guide technologies from early concept through commercialization. Before joining Capstan, Maggie led Intuitive’s China Operations and Strategy, helping expand the company’s presence and capabilities in one of the world’s fastest-growing healthcare markets.

At Capstan, Maggie is focused on building a company that moves quickly, tackles hard problems, and works closely with physicians & engineers to determine how heart valve therapies can be re-imagined using robotics, cutting edge implant and catheter technology, and AI-assisted imaging.