• GENDER: Male

  • AGE RANGE: 37-55

  • ETHNICITIES: White / European Descent

  • HEIGHT: 6'1" / 185cm

  • WEIGHT: 190lbs / 86kg

  • BUILD: Athletic / Toned

  • HAIR: Brown

  • EYES: Hazel

 

ABout

Skills

  • Black Belt Tae Kwon Do

  • High Altitude Mountain Climber (Everest, Denali)

  • Skydiver (Level D)

  • Scuba Diver (Advanced)

  • (Heli-)Snowboarder, Downhill Skier (Advanced)

  • Rifle Marksman

  • Horsebackriding

  • Motorcycle & Driving License

Music:

  • Guitar;

  • Piano;

  • Baritone Voice;

Languages:

  • English

  • Russian

  • German

  • French

Citizenship:

Dual Citizen UK/US

Education:

  • Harvard, Bachelors in Physics, Engineering, graduated at 21 with honors

  • Harvard, MBA

  • William Esper Studio, 2 Year Program

 
 

About

In a society that frequently presents “alternative facts” and pushes the boundaries of truth to excess, Llewellyn Connolly’s resume seems embellished, almost too good to be true, but it is not exaggerated in any way. He was reared by a family who placed a great deal of importance on achievement, academic and otherwise. Even his grandmother, a pivotal and influential person in his life, not only went to college, but was Phi Beta Kappa, graduated with honors, and earned her master’s degree in the 1920s when women often did not attend college. Two relatives were awarded Medal of Honors, Albertus Catlin and Isaac Catlin, while still alive, a rare and distinct honor. This meddle and determination was instilled in him from a young age. He graduated from Harvard at 21 with honors in degrees in engineering and physics, a feat in itself as he lost his ROTC funding after a six story fall. Miraculously he was able to flip and land on his feet, but upon landing, the sheer impact caused him to fall backwards and hit his head. His father, a high school guidance counselor, worked three jobs to put his son through college.

An investment banker and philanthropist with a background in hedge fund management and derivatives trading, Llewellyn Connolly currently gives back to the community as a volunteer with the Fortune Society in New York City. Llewellyn Connolly began his career 25 years ago as an associate in the Fixed Income division at Goldman Sachs, where he was the youngest analyst in Goldman Sachs’ history. Following successful periods as head of European derivative trading and a managing director at Goldman, Mr. Connolly joined Lehman Brothers as a managing director and co-head of U.S. equity derivative sales and trading. In 2005, he founded an Equity hedge fund and derivative boutique with capital from Swiss Re, and spent the next four years as its co-managing partner. More recently, he founded and ran New York-based Eumaeus Asset Management, a capital structure arbitrage fund seeded with $25 million.

Today, Llewellyn Connolly works with the Fortune Society to prepare incarcerated individuals for productive lives after prison. To this end, he teaches math courses to those preparing for the GED examination. He is also involved with the Public Theater and their community outreach program

The Man in the Arena

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcomin; but who does actually strive to do the deeds;

who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

Theodore Roosevelt, Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910