Alex Watson

Alex Watson is senior director of product at NVIDIA AI, helping lead product efforts for OpenShell and synthetic data. He joined the company in 2025 with the acquisition of Gretel. While at the startup, Alex led a team of over 50 scientists and pioneers who were pioneering synthetic data-generation techniques for AI model training and differential privacy. He previously founded harvest.ai to develop AI-driven data protection at petabyte scale. After Amazon Web Services acquired the company, Alex grew the newly branded Amazon Macie into one of AWS’s top 25 revenue-generating services. Alex began his career at the National Security Agency, holds a bachelor’s in computer science from Indiana University, Bloomington.