Pete Watson

Pete Watson is the current CEO at Atlas Cloud. Prior to this, they were a mentor at Ignite Accelerator from June 2011 to October 2018. Their role at Ignite100 was to work with founders and offer them ideas, advice, and contacts. Before their time at Ignite100, Pete was the Sherpa at Sherpa Business Consultancy from January 2009 to August 2013. Their role at Sherpa was to take a hands-on approach to building early stage companies. Pete was also responsible for investment readiness, building teams, business planning, strategic review, and routes to market.

Pete Watson has an MBA from Durham University, and a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from The Manchester Metropolitan University. Pete also has certificates in Leadership from Common Purpose and Vistage, and in Business Strategy and Business Administration and Management from the Barclays Scale up Programme and the Cambridge Judge Business School.

Some direct reports include Andrew Jacques - Technical Manager, Lyndsey Falcus - Project & Service Operations Manager, and Andy Lewis - Managed Service Sales Manager.