Speakers

Mr. Watson is a member of the EMEA Primary CLO business at JP Morgan, focused on equity solutions, deal strategy and management for Europe, and has over twenty years of structured finance experience in both structuring and trading contexts.  Before joining JP Morgan, Mr. Watson was with the Financial Analytics & Structured Transactions team at Bear Stearns in New York working on the RMBS trading desk, then the CLO and ABS CDO structuring desks, before moving to London in a similar capacity in early 2008.  Upon JP Morgan’s acquisition of Bear Stearns in that year, Mr Watson initially worked as a desk analyst on the European CLO trading desk, and was seconded temporarily to JPM’s New York office to help re-launch the US CLO business in 2010.  Following that, he returned to London to trade European ABS CDOs.  He then transitioned back to the EMEA Primary CLO business when the European CLO market re-opened in 2013.

Mr. Watson has a BA magna cum laude from Cornell University, and an MBA with honours in finance, accounting, and economics from the University of Chicago.