Jason Michael Holland

• Name — Jason Holland • Birth Name — Jason Michael Holland • Birthplace — Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England • Education — University of Northumbria • Occupation — Designer, lecturer, awards judge

Holland was bornin Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. His early childhood was spent in Brinsley, where he attended Matthew Holland School, now renamed Selston High School. Holland studied the First Diploma in Art and Design at West Nottinghamshire College (Mansfield) from 1989 to 1990, followed by the two-year HND Graphic Design and returns frequently to mentor and lecture. He studied for his BA (Hons) Degree in Graphic design at Northumbria University from 1992 to 1995.

In 1995, Holland joined Hyperinteractive - one of London's earliest web design agencies - as Senior Designer. He has since founded three digital agencies. The first was Head New Media which became the UK digital arm of Lowe Worldwide. Head New Media included the specialist Interactive Television agency Head End that produced the first interactive commercials for Tesco and Unilever. In 1999, Holland and his then business partner, Felix Velarde were the subject of Keeping Creative, an episode of BBC Knowledge's 15 part series, "The Crunch", profiling innovative entrepreneurs. The documentary was made by Uden Associates and is still broadcast occasionally in Europe as part of BBC Worldwide's business education strand. Head New Media also sponsored the non-commercial, online creative community, Head-Space, that incubated prominent community websites including Urban75 and John Lundberg et al.'s Circlemakers.org. Head-Space has featured in the travelling exhibition Digital Archaeology since 2010, and has been recognised as a digital artefact of considerable historic and cultural relevance, a germinal precursor to YouTube. Holland's next agency Underwired was equally innovative, pioneered the discipline of eCRM and rose to be named The RAR eCRM Agency of the Year 2015. In March 2016, Holland launched THE CRM Agency. with fellow Internet veteran John Thew.

• 1995 designed the UK's first University Degree Show CD-ROM • 1995 created the first interactive production featured at the D&AD Student Expo (now called New Blood) • 1996 created the Sci-Fi Channel's first interactive TV tests • 1996 designed the Snickers MegaBite website, which Campaign magazine described as Mars’ first real attempt to establish itself on the Internet. • 1997 created the website Head-Space, which is an acknowledged blueprint for intranets and a precursor to YouTube. • 1998 Designed first Interactive Television advertisements for Tesco and Unilever