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Article: A Long And Winding Road For Nicholas Watson.(Brief Article)
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- Tape-Disc Business
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
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It is one more indication of a maturing engineering industry that its marketing leaders are coming not from the engineering side but from other disciplines. Nicholas Watson's road to the optical disc business has given him many engineering insights, but they've been acquired tangentially, blended with an increasingly global world view.
Watson, born in Preston, Lancashire in the UK in 1952, studied international business law at the London Business School. His first job was for AMF, a U.S. company, where he worked in corporate finance in London. When AMF asked him to take a post in France when he was 22, it began a global journey as wide-ranging as the optical disc ...