Michael Barbella, Managing Editor07.20.23
Vicarious Surgical Inc. has promoted John Mazzola to chief operating officer (COO).
Mazzola joined Vicarious Surgical in March 2022 as senior vice president of Operations and has more than 35 years of medical device industry experience. He has been involved with more than 25 medical device product launches encompassing both Class II and Class III devices. Prior to joining the Vicarious Surgical team, he spent 13 years in senior executive roles and product development leadership positions, including serving as vice president of Operations at Becton Dickinson Surgery, overseeing a network of 10 manufacturing sites, a business planning and procurement organization, an advanced manufacturing engineering team, and the business’ environmental health and safety responsibilities.
In the past year, Mazzola has led strategic manufacturing plans for the Vicarious Surgical robotic system, overseeing operations and quality organizations. In the newly created COO role, Mazzola’s oversight expands to include the product development, clinical and regulatory affairs, IT, and people and culture functions of the business for enhanced workflow efficiency and a continued focus on manufacturing and procurement optimization.
“The newly-created COO role carries great importance as we expand our near-term focus from system development toward initial manufacturing processes for our V1.0 system,” Vicarious Surgical CEO Adam Sachs said. “John’s proven leadership and deep industry knowledge in building and scaling organizational and manufacturing infrastructure and processes gives me great confidence in his ability to execute in these areas and meaningfully contribute to our long-term corporate mission and strategy.”
Founded in 2014, Vicarious Surgical is a next-generation robotics company, developing a disruptive technology to substantially increase the efficiency of surgical procedures, improve patient outcomes, and reduce healthcare costs. The company’s surgical approach uses proprietary human-like surgical robots to transport surgeons inside the patient to perform minimally invasive surgery. Vicarious Surgical is led by an experienced team of technologists, medical device professionals and physicians, and is backed by technology luminaries including Bill Gates, Vinod Khosla’s Khosla Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Jerry Yang’s AME Cloud Ventures, Sun Hung Kai & Co. Ltd and Philip Liang’s E15 VC. The company is headquartered in Waltham, Mass.
Mazzola joined Vicarious Surgical in March 2022 as senior vice president of Operations and has more than 35 years of medical device industry experience. He has been involved with more than 25 medical device product launches encompassing both Class II and Class III devices. Prior to joining the Vicarious Surgical team, he spent 13 years in senior executive roles and product development leadership positions, including serving as vice president of Operations at Becton Dickinson Surgery, overseeing a network of 10 manufacturing sites, a business planning and procurement organization, an advanced manufacturing engineering team, and the business’ environmental health and safety responsibilities.
In the past year, Mazzola has led strategic manufacturing plans for the Vicarious Surgical robotic system, overseeing operations and quality organizations. In the newly created COO role, Mazzola’s oversight expands to include the product development, clinical and regulatory affairs, IT, and people and culture functions of the business for enhanced workflow efficiency and a continued focus on manufacturing and procurement optimization.
“The newly-created COO role carries great importance as we expand our near-term focus from system development toward initial manufacturing processes for our V1.0 system,” Vicarious Surgical CEO Adam Sachs said. “John’s proven leadership and deep industry knowledge in building and scaling organizational and manufacturing infrastructure and processes gives me great confidence in his ability to execute in these areas and meaningfully contribute to our long-term corporate mission and strategy.”
Founded in 2014, Vicarious Surgical is a next-generation robotics company, developing a disruptive technology to substantially increase the efficiency of surgical procedures, improve patient outcomes, and reduce healthcare costs. The company’s surgical approach uses proprietary human-like surgical robots to transport surgeons inside the patient to perform minimally invasive surgery. Vicarious Surgical is led by an experienced team of technologists, medical device professionals and physicians, and is backed by technology luminaries including Bill Gates, Vinod Khosla’s Khosla Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Jerry Yang’s AME Cloud Ventures, Sun Hung Kai & Co. Ltd and Philip Liang’s E15 VC. The company is headquartered in Waltham, Mass.