PATRICIA A. WATSON

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ROCKWELL AUTOMATION, INC

Filing Date Source Excerpt
2018-12-20 Patricia A. Watson Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Total System Services, Inc. Age 52 Committees: Audit and Technology Ms. Watson is the Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Total System Services (TSYS).
2019-12-19 Patricia A. Watson Age 53 Committees: Audit and Technology INDEPENDENT Former Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Total System Services, Inc. (global payments provider) DIRECTOR COMPENSATION TABLE Patricia A. Watson Fees Earned or Paid In Cash: 113,500 Stock Awards: 135,000 Total: 257,500
2020-12-23 Patricia A. Watson Age 54 Director since: 2017 Committees: Audit, Technology INDEPENDENT President, Enterprise Collaboration, Intrado Corporation (global provider of technology enabled services)
2021-12-22 Patricia A. Watson Age 55 Director since: 2017 Committees: Audit, Technology INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR COMPENSATION TABLE Patricia A. Watson Fees Earned or Paid in Cash: 94,063 Stock Awards: 147,500 Total: 242,063
2023-12-20 Ms. Watson has served as Chief Information and Technology Officer at NCR Atleos Corporation since the company’s corporate reorganization in October 2023. In this role she leads the company’s information and technology team and technology leadership council. Prior to the corporate reorganization she served as the Chief Information Officer at NCR Corporation from October 2022 until October 2023. She previously held the role of President, Cloud Collaboration from September 2020 to June 2022 at Intrado Corporation and Co-President, Enterprise Collaboration upon joining the company in January 2020 until September 2020. She is the former Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Total System Services (TSYS) (financial services), a role she held from 2015 until 2019 when Global Payments, Inc. acquired TSYS. Before joining TSYS, she served as Vice President and Global Chief Information Officer for The Brink’s Company. Previously Ms. Watson worked with Bank of America for more than fourteen years in technology positions of increasing responsibility and spent ten years in the United States Air Force as executive staff officer, flight commander, and director of operations. Ms. Watson brings extensive technology and executive experience to the Board. She has strong strategic leadership, business, financial oversight, and technical skills. As President of Intrado’s Cloud Collaboration Ms. Watson was responsible for delivering Unified Collaboration as a Service (Ucaas) for enterprise and mid-market clients leveraging cloud-based technologies. She has experience setting company enterprise technology strategy to enable future global growth. Her background and expertise in information technology and cybersecurity give her critical insights into new technologies, business models, risk identification and management, and talent and strategy. She has valuable experience and knowledge in the areas of audit and control and compliance. Ms. Watson is also experienced in human capital management through her oversight of the human resources function in a prior role and has strong cybersecurity experience having managed and having responsibility for information security at multiple large organizations. She also brings the benefits of her board experience at USAA Federal Savings Bank and Texas Capital Bancshares. Ms. Watson holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from St. Mary’s College at Notre Dame and an M.B.A. from the University of Dayton. Committees: Compensation and Talent Management (Chair), Technology. Annual director compensation: $329,896.
2024-12-20 Patricia A. Watson Age 58 Director since: 2017 INDEPENDENT KEY QUALIFICATIONS: ● Technology & Innovation ● Industry/Operations/Manufacturing ● Risk & Governance ● Global Business ● CEO/Executive Leadership Retired Chief Information and Technology Officer, NCR Atleos (software corporation) COMMITTEES: Compensation and Talent Management (Chair), Technology DIRECTOR COMPENSATION TABLE Patricia A. Watson 132,500 Fees Earned or Paid in Cash, 200,000 Stock Awards, 5,863 All Other Compensation, 338,363 Total

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO

Filing Date Source Excerpt
2025-04-04 Director since: 2024 Principal Occupation Former Chief Information and Technology Officer of NCR Atleos Corporation Board Committees Nominating and Corporate Governance, Safety and Operations

TEXAS CAPITAL BANCSHARES INC/TX

Filing Date Source Excerpt
2016-04-07 Patricia A. Watson has been a director since February 2016. ... Ms. Watson's expertise in information technology and security in the financial services and payments industries, as well as her strategic leadership skills, make her highly qualified to serve as a director and member of the Audit and Risk Committee. ... Ms. Watson has been excluded from the 2015 Director Compensation Table because she did not begin serving as a director until February 2016.
2017-03-09 Patricia A. Watson has served as a director since February 2016. ... Ms. Watson's expertise in information technology and security in the financial services and payments industries, as well as her strategic leadership skills, make her highly qualified to serve as a director and member of the Audit and Risk Committee.
2018-03-08 Patricia A. Watson has served as a director since February 2016. She serves as the Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of TSYS... Ms. Watson is highly qualified to serve as a director and member of the Audit Committee.
2019-03-07 Patricia A. Watson has served as a director since February 2016. She serves as the Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Total System Services, Inc., ("TSYS"), a global payment solutions provider for financial and non-financial institutions. Prior to joining TSYS in September 2016 she served as Vice President and Global Chief Information Officer for The Brinks Company. Prior to joining Brinks she worked with Bank of America for more than 14 years in technology positions of increasing responsibility. She spent 10 years in the United States Air Force as executive staff officer, flight commander and director of operations. Ms. Watson currently serves as a director of Rockwell Automation, Inc., where she is a member of the Audit Committee and the Technology Committee. Ms. Watson’s expertise in information technology and security in the financial services and payments industries, as well as her strategic leadership skills, make her highly qualified to serve as a director and member of the Audit Committee.

Source material: SEC submissions metadata and DEF 14A proxy filings from EDGAR. Last updated: 2026-03-22