[1][2] In 1988 he established Control Automation Technologies Corporation (CATC), an industrial controls business, in North Carolina which was named North Carolina's Small Business of the Year in 1998 and was selected by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as finalist for the national Blue Chip Enterprise Award in 1999.
On January 1, 2006 Control Automation Technologies Corp. was acquired by Instrumentation Services, Inc. an FCX company (https://www.fcxperformance.com).
[1][2] He resides in Gloucester, VA. Watson was the 2011 Republican nominee in the 93rd House district, whose Democratic incumbent, lawyer Robin Abbott, was redistricted out.
[5] During his first year in office Watson earned the legislature's second highest business rating from Virginia Free, won the Champion of Free Enterprise Award from the VA Chamber of Commerce, and was named Freshman Legislator of the Year.
[12] In 2023, VA Governor Glenn Youngkin appointed Watson to Virginia's Manufacturing Development Commission (https://www.governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/news-releases/2023/december/name-1019115-en.html)