Primary Job Title President & CEO Primary Organization 99designs
Location Richmond, Victoria, Australia Regions Asia-Pacific (APAC), Australasia Gender Male
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Patrick Llewellyn joined 99designs, the world's largest graphic design marketplace, in 2009. He previously spent a decade at Nextec Strategic Capital advising Australian technology and media companies with an expertise in growth and capital raising.
In 2010 Patrick moved to San Francisco to open the 99designs U.S. office and oversee U.S. and
international expansion. He was officially appointed CEO in January 2011, and quickly guided 99designs to a $35 million first-round capital investment led by Accel Partners (Facebook, Dropbox, Etsy), followed by a $10 million Series B led by Recruit Holdings 2015.
Llewellyn has since launched 99designs' European headquarters in Berlin as well as localized-language sites across Europe and Latin America. He has grown the company from a handful of staff to 125 with offices in Oakland, Melbourne and Berlin. As of October 2017, 99designs has hosted more than 650,000 graphic design contests and paid out more than $200 million to its community of freelance graphic designers around the world.