He was previously Strandline's principal advisor for strategy and development and, prior to this, was managing director and CEO of engineering, project delivery and operations company Sedgman (AU:SDM).
Watson is chairman of the Evac Group, non-executive chairman of EvacServices and a non-executive director at Resource Generation (AU:RES).
He has more than 34 years' experience in the global resources sector in senior technical, project and management roles and will support the Strandline through the funding and development phase of its pipeline of projects with specific short-term focus on commercialising the projects.