Peggy Johnson

Peggy Johnson is the CEO of Agility Robotics, maker of the groundbreaking bipedal robot, Digit. Johnson joined Agility in 2024 to lead the company’s next phase of growth, focusing on sales, strategic partnerships, and delivering robots at scale to meet overwhelming demand. Before joining Agility, Johnson served as CEO of spatial computing company Magic Leap, where she led the pivot from consumer to enterprise and launched Magic Leap 2, a leading AR headset for business. Previously, Johnson spent six years as EVP of Business Development at Microsoft, where she was responsible for driving strategic partnerships and transactions to accelerate growth for the company and its customers. While at Microsoft, Johnson launched M12, the company’s first corporate venture fund which in three years added more than 80 companies to its portfolio. Prior to that, Johnson spent 24 years at Qualcomm, where she served as a member of the company’s Executive Committee and held various leadership positions across engineering, sales, marketing, and business development. Throughout her career, Johnson has received extensive recognition for her engineering and business successes, including being named as Business Insider’s most powerful female engineer in the U.S. and being inducted into the Women in Technology Hall of Fame.