Tom Watson

Tom Watson serves as Chief Executive Officer of Serco Inc., a leading provider of professional, technology, and management services to every branch of the U.S. military, numerous U.S. federal civilian agencies, the intelligence community, the Government of Canada, state and local governments, and commercial clients.

Tom oversees the $1.5 billion business with approximately 9,500 employees providing support in three key market sectors - Defense, Citizen Services, and Transportation.

Prior to being promoted to CEO in September 2022, Tom served as Serco’s Senior Vice President, of the Defense Services Business Group and the Company’s Acquisition, Program Management & Logistics Business Unit and the Systems Integration & Installation Business Unit.

Before to joining Serco in 2018, Tom held positions of increasing responsibility with SAIC for 22 years. His last position was as Senior Vice President and General Manager of SAIC's Navy and Marine Corps Business Unit which had annual revenues of over $1B with ~4000 employees. The BU provided mission critical technical and engineering support services and products and system integration support and solutions for ship, shore, submarine, vehicle and aviation and weapons systems programs for U.S. Navy and Marine Corps customers.

Before joining SAIC, he worked for RCI (now Serco) providing technical and engineering support for U.S. Navy intelligence and information systems. Tom has more than 30 years of experience in supporting and leading command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence systems programs, management, engineering and technical support, hardware and software systems development, production and integration, IT systems, management, and business development efforts. His career also includes six years active duty in the U.S. Navy as an electronics technician.

Tom earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Maryland, and a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology from National University.