SCIENCE
ET International Appoints John Watts to Board of Directors
Watts has decades of proven success in the investment industry, deep engineering expertise, and extensive corporate and civic leadership experience. Watts co-founded and served as Chair of the premier institutional fixed-income portfolio management firm, Fischer Francis Trees & Watts (FFTW), which pioneered the active management of analytic-based bond and currency portfolios and now manages over $50B for clients in 34 countries. As deputy to the CIO, and later to the managing partner of the private bank Brown Brothers Harriman, he co-founded the firm’s pioneering advisory and analytic service in foreign exchange for global clients.
After completing an MS in applied mathematics and engineering at the University of Texas, Watts worked on engineering and strategy projects for corporate and government clients at Arthur D. Little, Inc. He received his MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, completed coursework for a Ph.D. in economics, and received the Scott Award for leadership in his class. A registered professional engineer, Watts also served as a missile division officer on the US 7th fleet flagship and as an engineer at the Naval Weapons Lab. He serves or has served as Chair or on executive committees of over 18 corporate, civic, college and global banks’ boards. In 2005, he also founded and now chairs a private equity firm that advises and finances transforming technology ventures.
“John Watts is a tremendous addition to the ETI board at both the scientific and business level,” said Rich Collier, COO of ETI. “His highly lauded investment career will be a valuable asset to our business advisory team as we look to take ETI’s pioneering many-core technology and software development services to the wider market.”
ETI’s high-performance software solutions and services include its breakthrough SWARM (SWift Adaptive Runtime Machine) technology, benchmarking capabilities, hardware and software design, performance-critical programming, consulting, and more to enable organizations to conquer the performance challenges presented by the intersection of massively parallel software applications and hybrid many-core computing systems.
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