Llewellyn is a British-American scientist, entrepreneur, and investor based in Los Angeles. 

He is currently the Executive Director of Corporate Relations for the University of Southern California, working to build meaningful, long-term collaborative relationships to connect world-class research at USC with industry partners.

Educated at the Universities of Sheffield and Cardiff, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Weill Cornell Medical School in New York, Llewellyn is an accomplished research scientist with expertise in cell & molecular biology, developmental biology, and neuroscience.

Llewellyn has been an active member of LA's biotech startup community for over a decade, where he has played a key role in a number of startup biotech companies, including founding:

• Lab Launch, a network of affordable entry-level R&D lab spaces for small and startup biotech companies

• MarsBio, a unique public-private venture fund in partnership with the County of Los Angeles

Llewellyn also retains a part-time faculty appointment at the University of Southern California, where he lectures on pharmaceutical commercialization and science communications in the Keck School of Medicine, Department of Translational Genomics