Company: ISRG
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001035267-25-000098
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Company: INTUITIVE SURGICAL INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form: DEF 14A
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 shorter length of hospital stay, fewer complications, faster recovery, and fewer readmissions. We believe that it provides support for the differentiated outcomes and value that our products and services can deliver when compared to other surgical alternatives.

#### Future Priorities
While we celebrate a successful 2024, we are mindful that our work is never finished, and we rededicate ourselves to continuous improvements in safety, quality, and efficacy as we play a growing role in surgery across global healthcare systems.

Over the coming year, Intuitive will continue to invest in innovation and product development, ensuring product quality and optimizing manufacturing. Our teams will work on actions to improve gross margin over the medium term, increase productivity in our enabling functions as we scale, and prioritize efficient spending to free up capital to reinvest. We will continue to emphasize digital excellence through the launch of tools in key markets, along with feature and infrastructure updates.

On behalf of the Intuitive Board of Directors, thank you for your investment in our Company.

| Date: |     | March 14, 2025        |     | /s/ Craig H. Barratt, PhD                   |
|:------|:----|:----------------------|:----|:--------------------------------------------|
|       |     | Sunnyvale, California |     | Craig H. Barratt, PhD                       |
|       |     |                       |     | Independent Chair of the Board of Directors |

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### TABLE OF CONTENTS
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| About the Annual Meeting                                                                       |     |                                                                                                                                           |     |                                        |     |        2 |
| Directors and Corporate Governance                                                             |     |                                                                                                                                           |     |                                        |     |        3 |
| Environmental, Social, and Governance                                                          |     |                                                                                                                                           |     |                                        |     |       22 |
| Compensation for Directors                                                                     |     |                                                                                                                                           |     |                                        |     |       23 |
| Executive Officers of the Company                                                              |     |                                                                                                                                           |     |                                        |     |       26 |
| Executive Compensation                                                                         |     |                                                                                                                                           |     |                                        |     |       27 |
|                                                                                                |     | Compensation Committee Report                                                                                                             |     |                                        |     |       27 |
|                                                                                                |     | Compensation Discussion and Analysis                                                                                                      |     |                                        |     |       28 |
|                                                                                                |     |                                                                                                                                           |     | Executive Summary                      |     |       28 |
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