Ivo Watts-Russell (born 1954) is a British music producer and record label executive.
Watts-Russell was born in Edinburgh, the youngest of eight children of Major David Watts-Russell and Gina Spinola (née Baker; died 2018 aged 98);[2][3] he "never related emotionally" to either of his parents, and grew up "on a dilapidated Northamptonshire estate in an atmosphere of almost Victorian froideur".
His paternal grandfather, Captain Arthur Egerton Birch, of the Coldstream Guards (son of the colonial administrator Sir Arthur Nonus Birch), took his mother's surname at the age of 21, she being of the Watts-Russell gentry family formerly of Ilam Hall, Staffordshire.
A few years after the release of This Mortal Coil's final studio album, he founded and produced a band called The Hope Blister.
[11] He had a nervous breakdown in 1994 and sold his half of 4AD to founder and chairman of the Beggars Group Martin Mills in 1999.