Joel Holland
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Joel Holland (full name Joel Kent Holland III, born January 17, 1985) is an accomplished entrepreneur, journalist, and television host. Only 22, Joel has been covered by the media for his many accomplishments since he was in middle school, and was recently ranked by Business Week Magazine as one of the "Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25."
Joel is the owner and CEO of Footage Firm, a large and constantly growing company that counts hundreds of major clients in the entertainment industry. To satisfy his journalistic passion, Joel also interviews celebrities and high profile guests for Streaming Futures, a television show that is seen by millions of young adults each month.
In March 2007, Joel was named the "Young Entrepreneur of the Year" by the United States Small Business Administration.
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As the Producer & Host of Streaming Futures, Joel has interviewed over 150 high profile guests ranging from Steve Forbes to Arnold Schwarzenegger to Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert. After founding the program as a sophomore in high school, Joel has grown Streaming Futures into an effective career resource for millions of teachers and students all over the world, whether they tune into the show on PBS, StreamingFutures.org, Monster.com, KidzOnline.org, iTunes or a variety of other outlets.
An active journalist, Joel was awarded second place in Virginia for the Journalism Education Association Journalist of the Year Contest, writes a monthly column for Entrepreneur Magazine’s teen supplement, and resides on the USA Today Teen Panel. Joel is also a frequent keynote speaker and emcee for educational events, and has had the opportunity host events with cabinet level politicians and Fortune 500 executives.
[edit] Entrepreneur
Starting and running businesses since he was 12, Joel’s interest in entrepreneurship is just as fierce, and in 2006 he was named one of the “Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25” by Business Week Magazine. Also in 2006, Joel received the prestigious Student Business Initiative Award by Babson College, ranked #1 in Entrepreneurship by US News and World Report.
An avid videographer with many friends and colleagues in the entertainment industry, Joel founded Footage Firm as a junior in high school. Started as a hobby, Joel quickly realized that there was a potential to make real money with the company, and after senior year he deferred from Babson for one year to put serious time and energy into expanding operations.
For the past 5 years, Footage Firm has specialized in selling professionally shot, studio-quality video of major cities, countries, and landscapes to editors, producers, television and movie studios for use in their projects, royalty-free.
Although sales are continuing to hit all time highs with each new month, Joel will not be content until Footage Firm can occupy a much larger piece of the multimillion dollar stock footage industry. Profits will continue to be plowed back into advertising and expansion of the company.
Born and raised in McLean, Virginia, Joel resides in Wellesley, Massachusetts during the school year where he is a junior in Dean's List standing at Babson College, the #1 ranked entrepreneurial business school in the US. During the summer he lives and works in New York City or Los Angeles.
More information on Joel can be seen on his resume website: [1]
