Matt Bell lives in Greenville and is the Director the SC Launch Program of SCRA. He originates from the mid-west where he was the Managing Director of the Discovery Partners Institute with the University of Illinois, Managing Director with the Cultivian Sandbox Food and Agriculture Venture Fund, and several positions within the University of Michigan Office of Technology Transfer.

Matt also spent several years managing the Coulter Translational Research program in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Michigan.