James Watson
Director/Board Member at TrueDemand Software, Inc.
Profile
James F.
Watson was the founder of Skyway Systems, Inc. (founded in 1977) and held the title of President from 1977 to 1995.
Mr. Watson is also the founder of Skyway Freight Systems, Inc. Mr. Watson's current job(s) include being a Director at TrueDemand Software, Inc., Odyssey Logistics & Technology Corp., Jobvite, Inc., Velocity Pharmaceutical Development LLC, and Reeve Foundation - Presidio Partners NRT LP.
Mr. Watson is also a Managing Director at Presidio Partners since 2014.
Mr. Watson's former job(s) include being Chairman at Amitive, Inc. and Atlas AI PBC, and Director at PathScale, Inc., LiveOps, Inc., Untangle, Inc., Teros, Inc., Streamlite, Inc., Schooner Information Technology, Inc., iSuppli Corp., SpikeSource, Inc., Apriso Corp., NetBooks, Inc., Luminate, Inc., International Business Machines Corp., and United Airlines, Inc. Mr. Watson obtained an undergraduate degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1969.
James Watson active positions
| Companies | Position | Start |
|---|---|---|
Presidio Partners
 Presidio Partners Investment ManagersFinance Presidio Partners is a venture capital firm founded in the year 1989 by Thomas R. Baruch. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Private Equity Investor | 2000-12-31 |
TrueDemand Software, Inc.
 TrueDemand Software, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Truedemand Software, Inc. provides store-level software as a service based insights and analytics solutions for consumer packaged goods companies. The company was founded by Raymond J. Blanchard and Eric Peters in 2004 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, CA. | Director/Board Member | - |
Odyssey Logistics & Technology Corp.
 Odyssey Logistics & Technology Corp. RailroadsTransportation Odyssey Logistics & Technology Corp. provides logistics management services. It offers intermodal, trucking, managed services, international transportation, and brokerage services. The company was founded by Robert H. Shellman in 2003 and is headquartered in Danbury, CT. | Director/Board Member | - |
Jobvite, Inc.
 Jobvite, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Jobvite, Inc. engages in the development of recruiting software application for employment management. Its products include Jobvite Hire, Jobvite Engage, Jobvite Onboard, Jobvite Carrer Sites, Jobvite Video, Jobvite Mobile, and Jobvite Text. It also offers professional services including implementation, data import, professional training, strategic, and custom solutions. The company was founded by Hans Larsen and Jesper Schultz in 2003 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA. | Director/Board Member | 2009-07-09 |
Velocity Pharmaceutical Development LLC
 Velocity Pharmaceutical Development LLC Drugstore ChainsRetail Trade Velocity Pharmaceutical Development LLC develops pharmaceutical drugs. It identifies drug candidates, target markets and designing and managing outsourced clinical trials. The firm seeks to acquire promising drug candidates, generally within a year of their entering human clinical trials or after initial human clinical data have been generated. The company was founded by David Collier, Ed Schnipper, Jim Larrick and Andy Perlman in 2011 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA. | Director/Board Member | - |
Reeve Foundation - Presidio Partners NRT LP
 Reeve Foundation - Presidio Partners NRT LP Investment ManagersFinance Reeve Foundation - Presidio Partners NRT LP is a special purpose vehicle formed to invest in NeuroRecovery Technologies Inc. | Director/Board Member | - |
Former positions of James Watson
| Companies | Position | End |
|---|---|---|
Skyway Systems, Inc.
 Skyway Systems, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Part of Solera Holdings LLC (Texas), Skyway Systems, Inc. provides telemetric safety and security services. The company is based in Broomfield, CO. Skyway Systems was acquired by Inilex, Inc. on January 08, 2009. The company was founded by James F. Watson. | Founder | 1995-12-30 |
| IBM | Corporate Officer/Principal | 1976-12-30 |
| Skyway Freight Systems, Inc. | Founder | - |
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Training of James Watson
| United States Naval Academy | Undergraduate Degree |
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| Listed companies | 1 |
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| IBM | Technology Services |
| Private companies | 22 |
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PathScale, Inc.
 PathScale, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services PathScale's goal is to make it easier to develop and deploy 64-bit applications into clustered environments. PathScale has developed the industry's highest-performance C, C++, and Fortran 9X compilers for 64-bit Linux-based computer systems. The PathScale Compiler Suite shares its heritage with the well-known and mature SGI compiler suite. The PathScale Compiler Suite has been optimized for both the AMD64 and EM64T architectures and has the world's most sophisticated optimization infrastructure. Unlike other compilers, the PathScale Compiler Suite provides superior performance across both floating-point and integer-intensive applications. Application developers targeting 64-bit Linux servers will see immediate performance benefits from compiling with the PathScale compilers. | Technology Services |
LiveOps, Inc.
 LiveOps, Inc. Specialty TelecommunicationsCommunications LiveOps, Inc. provides cloud contact center and customer service solutions. It offers various call types and channels, including customer service call center, outbound services interactions, inbound sales interactions, lead generation interactions, and self-service interactive voice response capabilities. The firm also provides cloud contact center solutions such as LiveOps Engage, LiveOps Voice and LiveOps Insight. LiveOps serves the financial, health, insurance, retail, marketing and media industries. The company was founded by William J. Trenchard in 2000 and is headquartered in Austin, TX. | Communications |
Untangle, Inc.
 Untangle, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Untangle, Inc. operates as a security software and appliance company. It provides multi-function firewall and Internet management application suites for large and small organizations. The firm provides virus blocker, firewall, intrusion prevention, phish blocker, web filter, spam blocker, web cache, bandwidth control, captive portal, policy manager applications. The company was founded by John Irwin, Jenna Reese and Dirk Morris in 2003 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA. | Technology Services |
TrueDemand Software, Inc.
TrueDemand Software, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Truedemand Software, Inc. provides store-level software as a service based insights and analytics solutions for consumer packaged goods companies. The company was founded by Raymond J. Blanchard and Eric Peters in 2004 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, CA. | Technology Services |
Teros, Inc.
 Teros, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Teros, Inc. provides web based application security solutions. The company also develops security solutions that protect enterprises from intrusion and damage at the web application level. It was founded in 2000. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA. | Technology Services |
Streamlite, Inc.
 Streamlite, Inc. Advertising/Marketing ServicesCommercial Services Streamlite, Inc. provides shipping and tracking services. The company was founded in 2005 ad is headquartered in Atlanta, GA. | Commercial Services |
Schooner Information Technology, Inc.
 Schooner Information Technology, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Schooner Information Technology delivers cost-effective, enterprise-grade database software that frees customers from the traditional tradeoffs between availability, performance and total cost of ownership (TCO). Schooner's proven, cost-effective offerings include SchoonerSQL, which is 100% compatible with MySQL for easy adoption, and the complementary Membrain data store and software cache. Based in Sunnyvale, California, Schooner is privately funded and supports a variety of customers across technology, entertainment, financial services and telecommunications industries. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA. | Technology Services |
iSuppli Corp.
 iSuppli Corp. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services iSuppli Corp. provides technology value chain research and advisory services. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Englewood CO. | Commercial Services |
| Skyway Freight Systems, Inc. | Transportation |
Odyssey Logistics & Technology Corp.
Odyssey Logistics & Technology Corp. RailroadsTransportation Odyssey Logistics & Technology Corp. provides logistics management services. It offers intermodal, trucking, managed services, international transportation, and brokerage services. The company was founded by Robert H. Shellman in 2003 and is headquartered in Danbury, CT. | Transportation |
Presidio Partners
Presidio Partners Investment ManagersFinance Presidio Partners is a venture capital firm founded in the year 1989 by Thomas R. Baruch. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Finance |
SpikeSource, Inc.
 SpikeSource, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services SpikeSource, Inc. provides testing and certified open source software solutions. The firm offers a platform that assembles, tests, packages, certifies, updates open source and other software solutions. The company was founded by Murugan Pal, Kim K. Polese and Raymond J. Lane in 2003 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA. | Technology Services |
Apriso Corp.
 Apriso Corp. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Apriso Corp. provides software solutions. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Long Beach, CA. | Technology Services |
Amitive, Inc.
 Amitive, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Amitive, Inc. provides software-as-a-service based community supply chain management software. It offers data schema independent platform that allows customers to create custom data schema while using a single application code and multi-tenant operational infrastructure, and document (object) centric process workflow with rules and UI versus traditional process-centric workflow with documents and rules. The firm provides lifecycle management services, such as problem definition, application design, application build, hosting, support and maintenance, application modification, and application phase-out. It serves automotive, banking, consumer products, heavy equipment, and high technology and consumer electronics industries around the world. The company was founded in 2002 by Lewis Edward and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA. | Technology Services |
NetBooks, Inc.
 NetBooks, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services NetBooks, Inc. provides online business management systems, content, and community. It offers accounting, invoicing, expense management, financial and tax reporting, contact, inventory and cash management, online company profile, and business dashboard. The company was founded by Evers Ridgely, Tate Holt and Thomas A. Proulx in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. | Technology Services |
Jobvite, Inc.
Jobvite, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Jobvite, Inc. engages in the development of recruiting software application for employment management. Its products include Jobvite Hire, Jobvite Engage, Jobvite Onboard, Jobvite Carrer Sites, Jobvite Video, Jobvite Mobile, and Jobvite Text. It also offers professional services including implementation, data import, professional training, strategic, and custom solutions. The company was founded by Hans Larsen and Jesper Schultz in 2003 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA. | Technology Services |
Skyway Systems, Inc.
Skyway Systems, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Part of Solera Holdings LLC (Texas), Skyway Systems, Inc. provides telemetric safety and security services. The company is based in Broomfield, CO. Skyway Systems was acquired by Inilex, Inc. on January 08, 2009. The company was founded by James F. Watson. | Commercial Services |
Luminate, Inc.
 Luminate, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Luminate, Inc. provides an image advertising and related content platform. The company offers image apps, image advertising, images, photos and publisher monitization. Luminate was founded in 2007 and is headquarters in Mountain View, CA. | Technology Services |
Velocity Pharmaceutical Development LLC
Velocity Pharmaceutical Development LLC Drugstore ChainsRetail Trade Velocity Pharmaceutical Development LLC develops pharmaceutical drugs. It identifies drug candidates, target markets and designing and managing outsourced clinical trials. The firm seeks to acquire promising drug candidates, generally within a year of their entering human clinical trials or after initial human clinical data have been generated. The company was founded by David Collier, Ed Schnipper, Jim Larrick and Andy Perlman in 2011 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA. | Retail Trade |
Reeve Foundation - Presidio Partners NRT LP
Reeve Foundation - Presidio Partners NRT LP Investment ManagersFinance Reeve Foundation - Presidio Partners NRT LP is a special purpose vehicle formed to invest in NeuroRecovery Technologies Inc. | Finance |
Atlas AI PBC
 Atlas AI PBC Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Atlas AI PBC provides information technology and services. It offers satellite imagery, agriculture, intelligence and impact investment. The company was founded by David Lobell, Marshall Burke and Stefano Ermon in March 2018 and is headquartered in Stanford, CA. | Technology Services |
United Airlines, Inc.
 United Airlines, Inc. AirlinesTransportation United Airlines, Inc. engages in the provision of passenger airline transportation services. It offers business products, United Airlines credit cards, premier access travel services, gift certificates, gift registry, travel products, and trip insurance. The company was founded by Walter T. Varney in 1934 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL. | Transportation |
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