Who are Agility Robotics's decision-makers?

Peggy Johnson, CEO since March 2024, spent nearly 24 years at Microsoft as EVP of Business Development — overseeing landmark deals including the LinkedIn acquisition — before serving as CEO of Magic Leap from 2020 to 2024, where she pivoted the company from a failing consumer AR product to a viable enterprise platform. Her appointment signals that Agility's primary challenge had shifted from technical to commercial: building a repeatable enterprise sales motion, customer success infrastructure, and manufacturing operations at scale.

Co-founder Jonathan Hurst (Chief Robot Officer) remains the technical conscience of the organization, setting the R&D roadmap and overseeing Digit's industrial design from his roots in Oregon State University's Dynamic Robotics Lab. The dynamic locomotion principles he developed — spring-mass walking, energy-efficient bipedal gait — are the foundational IP that competitors cannot quickly replicate. Co-founder Damion Shelton transitioned from CEO to Chairman in March 2024, stepping back from operations to provide governance, policy engagement, and external representation after leading the company for nine years.

CTO Pras Velagapudi, who joined from Berkshire Grey and the autonomous vehicle company Platypus, owns technology strategy and AI infrastructure. He has led Agility's push to apply modern AI — including reinforcement learning via NVIDIA Isaac Lab and generative world models via NVIDIA Cosmos — to accelerate Digit's commercial capabilities. CPO Melonee Wise, founder of Fetch Robotics, joined as CTO in May 2023 and transitioned to CPO in May 2024 when Velagapudi stepped into the technology role; in her CPO capacity she leads both engineering and the newly formed product organization, including the Agility Arc platform.

Agility's buying committee for technology vendors splits clearly along functional lines. For AI and robotics infrastructure — simulation, compute, synthetic data, training frameworks, reinforcement learning tooling — Pras Velagapudi (CTO) and Melonee Wise (CPO) are the primary owners. Wise led the Agility Arc build-out and has deep AMR and WMS integration experience from her years at Fetch Robotics and Zebra Technologies, making her the entry point for enterprise software and integration vendor conversations.

For manufacturing operations, supply chain, ERP, and MES tooling at RoboFab, Jennifer Hunter (CFO/COO) controls the budget. Her background spans Amazon, GE, Gillette, SunPower, and Nimble Robotics, giving her a strong operational lens on capital equipment, manufacturing software, and quality systems. For commercial partnership integrations, GTM software, and enterprise sales enablement tools, Daniel Diez (CBO) is the decision-maker — he oversaw Magic Leap's enterprise GTM transformation and is now building the same muscle at Agility. Legal and compliance technology routes through Anastasia Lang (Chief Legal & People Officer), who came from the same CLO role at Magic Leap.

Agility runs a functional leadership structure with an eight-person executive team that is unusually deep for a roughly 370-person company. The density of C-suite — CEO, CTO, CPO, CBO, CFO/COO, CLO/CPO — reflects a deliberate over-investment in executive bandwidth ahead of the manufacturing and commercial scale expected from the Series C capital deployment. This means vendor conversations can access decision-makers without navigating many layers of management.

Geographically, the organization clusters into three hubs. Salem and Corvallis, Oregon form the operational core: Salem houses RoboFab manufacturing; Corvallis (3015 SW Western Blvd) houses R&D and corporate administration, tied to the company's OSU roots. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is the engineering and AI research hub, leveraging proximity to Carnegie Mellon University — where co-founders Hurst and Shelton completed PhD programs — and the broader Pittsburgh robotics ecosystem; the Pittsburgh team focuses on robot platform engineering, AI skill development, and testing. California offices in Palo Alto and Fremont support commercial partnerships, Silicon Valley investor relations, and AI development.

As RoboFab scales toward its 10,000-unit-per-year design capacity, Salem operations headcount is expected to grow the most rapidly, with the manufacturing workforce eventually exceeding 500 workers. Technology and enterprise software hiring is concentrated in Pittsburgh and California. Sellers conducting ABM campaigns should map outreach accordingly: technical vendor conversations belong in Pittsburgh or California; manufacturing and operations conversations belong in Salem.