Hugh Williams is an Executive Vice President at Paramount. He is also co-host of the Tech Overflow podcast and a charity board member.

Hugh is a co-founder and the Chair of Australian charity Tech Futures Australia that runs the successful Code for Schools programme. In 2025, the charity supported coding classes for 191,000 students across Australia. He is also a Chairman of Toorak College and a Director of the Hugh and Selina Williams Foundation. Since 2017, Hugh has been an Honorary Professor at RMIT University.

From 2017 to 2025, Hugh was as an advisor and interim executive with many companies including ASOS (UK), Doordash (US), and Ocado Technology (UK). Prior to 2017, he was a Vice President at Google and eBay, a Senior Vice President at Pivotal, and a Partner at Microsoft. Earlier, he spent over 10 years researching and developing search technologies, and 5 years running his own startup and consultancy.

He is one of the inventors of Infinite Scroll and he holds 38 US patents with another 41 US patents pending. In recognition, he was recently elected as a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors.

Hugh has published 115 works, mostly in the field of Information Retrieval. He is the author of two books, including a best-seller on programming that sold over 100,000 copies. According to Google Scholar, his H-index is 40 and his works have been cited over 6,000 times. Hugh has a PhD in Computer Science from RMIT University in Australia.

Outside of work, Hugh is a fan of the Seattle Mariners, a 30-year Richmond Tigers member, and a Queens Park Rangers supporter. He was once the drummer in Snout and played on the album What’s That Sound that is available on vinyl.

If you’re interested in Hugh’s background, visit his linkedin profile.