Overview

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As a senior Silicon Valley executive, Watson is perhaps best known for the twelve years he spent with NetApp,the global leader in the network storage industry.
The most outbound of NetApp's several CTOs, Watson built multiple teams, led numerous projects, and helped drive the company's consistently successful customer-oriented product strategy, supporting revenue growth from $14M in 1995 to over $3B in 2007. Prior to NetApp, Watson spent a decade with other computer systems vendors (Auspex, Prime, Data General, RDS AutoMate).
Before that, his breadth of experience includes having been "the customer" during the pre-Lockheed years he spent with Martin Marietta Aerospace (Space Launch Systems), and the Systems Manager for the New York City Transit Authority's TCS (Transportation Control System). Watson also is a member of the advisory boards for several start-ups, including Gear6, Index Engines, Intransa, MiraLink, Mobopia, Monosphere, Orchesys, Overtone Software, PowerFile, Scalent, and Z Research.