R. J. Williams

RJ Williams was born in Los Angeles, California, United States in 1978. He was educated at the Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences in Santa Monica, and attended film school at the University of Southern California.Williams was a child actor on films and television shows, one of his credits being the child character Rowdy for two seasons of General Hospital, for which he became a winner of the Young Artist Award for best Actor in a Daytime Series for his role in General Hospital at the 12th annual Youth In Film Awards. He also played Thomas Magnum as a child in the 1983 episode of Magnum, P.I., "Home from the Sea". Additionally, he was the voice of the title cartoon bear Kissyfur, which started in 1986.

He also guest starred in a few episodes of Full House and an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation (The Child in 1988). In addition, he appeared on a few episodes of Punky Brewster. In the early 1990s, Williams provided the voice of Kit Cloudkicker in the animated show TaleSpin, and for Cavin in the final season of Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears.

He also played the boy whose friend was a robot on the 1990s syndicated children's TV show Wake, Rattle and Roll, a daily syndicated interview show that ran for 130 episodes. Once Wake, Rattle and Roll stopped producing episodes, Williams decided to take a hiatus from show business to attend both Crossroads High School and the film school at the University of Southern California (USC).

He starred as a child in the 1984 Christmas movie The Night They Saved Christmas with Jaclyn Smith and Art Carney, playing the youngest son, C.B. In 2004, Williams worked alongside NSYNC's Lance Bass and together they co-hosted a one-hour, primetime American Music Awards Pre-Show with Dick Clark Productions and ABC

In the Season 2, Episode 1 episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, he played Ian Andrew Troi, son of Counselor Deanna Troi.

Williams works closely advising several brands including Coca-Cola, Samsung, AT&T, Unilever, Subway, Rayban, Intuit and Electronic Arts on content production, product integration, experiential marketing and maximizing their social reach. He is known for paving the way by being one of the first to utilize new technologies such as what he did with programmatic advertising and creating PMP’S

RJ has been profiled in media such as Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Ad Week, Ad Age, BBC World News, USA Today and was named to The Hollywood Reporter Power 50 list joining the top execs from such places as Facebook, Twitter, Hulu, YouTube and Netflix. It was said that "Everything Young Hollywood Founder and CEO RJ Williams does is counterintuitive and effective" Fast Company recently included Williams on their list of "today's most innovative business thought leaders" joining Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley, Zynga CEO Mark Pincus, Legendary CEO Thomas Tull, and Tumblr CEO David Karp.

RJ Williams is represented by the Creative Artists Agency.