Programme Speakers
Ederyn Williams
Ederyn Williams is Director of Warwick Ventures.
After doing his MA (Natural Sciences) at Cambridge, and his D.Phil in Psychology at Oxford, he spent seven years as a researcher at University College London, Cambridge University and Johns Hopkins. He then joined British Telecom, where he spent 13 years managing new businesses in software, cable television, online data retrieval and telephone information services. In 1991 he became Managing Director of University of Leeds Innovations Ltd, which grew to a £7 million company with 30 spin-off companies under his management. He joined the University of Warwick in April 2000 as Director of Warwick Ventures, the technology transfer arm of the University, and has already been involved in founding 40 more spin-off companies, raising £20m of venture capital, filing 90 patents, and establishing major collaborations with other universities in the West Midlands.
