Ederyn Williams

Dr Ederyn Williams (born 21 September, 1946) is the former head of the university department Warwick Ventures (now Warwick Ventures Ltd) , University of Warwick, Coventry, West Midlands. He is the son of the famous Professor of Drama, Raymond Williams and co-developer of Social presence theory whose main thesis and major points were an extension of the principles first described twenty years previously in the 1956 Isaac Asimov novel: "The Naked Sun" .

While working for British Telecom in the early 1980s, he founded the short-lived games company Telecomsoft.

In 2009, his staff entered his name for a Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion - which he shared one year later with fellow winner Nicholas Bowen, head teacher, St Benet Biscop Catholic High School, Bedlington, Northumberland