Gary Guthart
InvestorExecutive Chairman, PhD at Intuitive Ventures Β· Board Member at Illumina Accelerator
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Gary Guthart is chief executive officer and a member of the Board of Directors at Intuitive, having held the CEO role since 2010, and also serves as Chair of the Board. He joined Intuitive's first engineering team in 1996 as a Control Systems Analyst and subsequently held positions including vice president of engineering, senior vice president of product operations, and President and Chief Operating Officer; prior to Intuitive, he worked on computer-enhanced surgery technology at SRI International and supported a NASA team studying pilot performance assessment. Guthart holds a B.S. in engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MS and PhD in engineering science from the California Institute of Technology, and he sits on the boards of Illumina and the Silicon Valley Leadership Group.
Experience
- IntuitiveChair of the Board of Directorscurrent2025 β present
- IntuitiveChief Executive Officer2010 β 2025
- IntuitivePresident and COO2008 β 2010
- IntuitiveVice President Of Engineering2002 β 2008
- IntuitiveControls Systems Analyst1996 β 2002
- IlluminaBoard Membercurrent2017 β present
- Silicon Valley Leadership GroupBoard Member2020 β 2025
- AffymetrixBoard Member2009 β 2016
- SRI InternationalApplied Mathematics Researcher1992 β 1996
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- Who is Gary Guthart?
- Gary Guthart is chief executive officer and a member of the Board of Directors at Intuitive, having held the CEO role since 2010, and also serves as Chair of the Board. He joined Intuitive's first engineering team in 1996 as a Control Systems Analyst and subsequently held positions including vice president of engineering, senior vice president of product operations, and President and Chief Operating Officer; prior to Intuitive, he worked on computer-enhanced surgery technology at SRI International and supported a NASA team studying pilot performance assessment. Guthart holds a B.S. in engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MS and PhD in engineering science from the California Institute of Technology, and he sits on the boards of Illumina and the Silicon Valley Leadership Group.
- Where does Gary Guthart work?
- Gary Guthart is Executive Chairman, PhD at Intuitive Ventures.
- Where did Gary Guthart go to school?
- Gary Guthart studied at Caltech (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Engineering Science); Caltech (Master's degree, Engineering Science); University of California, Berkeley (Bachelor of Science - BS, Engineering Physics).
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