Watts has spent 25 years working in large corporate R&D environments, such as Bell Labs, AT&T, and NCR, with some of the key technologies of our era attempting to commercialize breakthrough innovations. He is the founder and Managing General Partner of Progeny Ventures, LLC. He has a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Kansas and is a graduate of executive management programs at Yale and INSEAD (France), and the Venture Capital Institute.