Commercializing auditory neuroscience.

Dr. Donald “Lloyd” Watts has worked as an engineer at Microtel Pacific Research, Synaptics and Arithmos. In 1997, he joined Paul Allen’s Interval Research Corporation and continued his research in reverse-engineering the human auditory pathway. In 2000, he founded Audience, Inc., to commercialize his research, with investment from Paul Allen, Carver Mead and Allan Crawford. He served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 2000-2005, leading the development of the company’s core technologies.