Agility Robotics Names Three Expected Directors for Planned Public-Company Board

SUMMARY

Agility Robotics announced on 29 September 2026 that Merline Saintil, Derek Aberle and Pierre Gentin are expected to join its board of directors once its previously announced business combination with Churchill Capital Corp XI (NASDAQ: CCXI) is completed. They would serve alongside CEO Peggy Johnson and co-founder Damion Shelton, who both remain on the board.

Saintil is expected to join the existing board as an independent director immediately, subject to applicable approvals. Aberle and Gentin are expected to join when the proposed combination completes, subject to approvals and closing conditions. Further board members are to be announced later. After the transaction, the combined company is expected to operate as Agility Robotics and trade on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol AGLT.

According to Agility, Saintil sits on the boards of Rocket Lab, Symbotic and TD SYNNEX. Aberle spent 17 years at Qualcomm, where he was president from 2014 to 2018, and serves on the board of InterDigital. Gentin most recently was General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce and was previously Chief Legal Officer at McKinsey & Company.

On the product side, Agility says its current generation humanoid, Digit 4, is already operating in commercial environments, including at Schaeffler, GXO and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada. Agility refers to its recent announcement of Digit 5, which it anticipates will be commercially available in the second half of 2027, and says its focus will then be on scaling its vertically integrated platform. According to the release, the three new directors will together help oversee the company's next phase of growth, as it looks to expand commercial deployments of Digit, scale its manufacturing capabilities and advance the adoption of humanoid robotics across industrial environments.

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