Holland Spellers Staff
Jennifer Larson
Owner, CEO
Jennifer Larson
Owner, CEO
Jennifer Larson is the mother of a young man with regressive autism. She is a graduate of the University of Minnesota with degrees in marketing, psychology and speech communication and a graduate of the OPM program of Harvard Business School. Jennifer is the owner and CEO of Vibrant Technologies, incorporated 1998. She is also the owner, founder and CEO of the Holland Autism Center and Clinic, the Founding Board Chair of the non-profit Children with Autism Deserve Education (CADE), and Director and founder of the non-profit Health Choice. Jennifer has been honored with several business and media awards during her career including the Minneapolis Business Journal’s 2007, Forty under Forty award and 2008 Women to Watch award. She has been interviewed by Brent Bowers of the New York Times (“Out of Adversity an Opportunity“, “Entrepreneurs Press On, and Obstacles Fall“), and wrote “Is He High Functioning” on the Age of Autism.
Mark Blaxill
CFO
Mark Blaxill
CFO
Mark Blaxill is the CFO of Vibrant Technologies Inc and the Holland Center. In addition, he is co-founder and Executive Director of XLP Capital, a firm founded in 2015 and focused on technology strategy development, advanced data analytics and technology-based investments. Before starting XLP, Mr. Blaxill was a co-Founder and Managing Partner of 3LP Advisors, a firm focused on IP strategy development, patent transactions and IP-based investments. Previous to the launch of 3LP in 2008, he was a 25-year veteran of The Boston Consulting Group, where as senior vice president and partner, he headed the firm’s Strategy Practice. He is the co-author of The Invisible Edge: Taking Your Strategy to the Next Level Using Intellectual Property (Portfolio, 2009), which was named Best Strategy Book in 2009 by a leading business journal. He has been named one of “The World’s Leading IP Strategists” by IAM Magazine.
Mark is also the father of a daughter diagnosed with autism. He has published numerous scientific articles and co-authored three books on autism with Dan Olmsted: The Age of Autism (Thomas Dunne, September 2010), and Vaccines 2.0 (Skyhorse Publishing, February 2015) and most recently Denial: How Refusing to Face the Facts About Our Autism Epidemic Hurts Children, Families—and our Future (Skyhorse, 2017).
Mr. Blaxill earned an M.B.A. with distinction from Harvard Business School and an A.B. from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, where he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
Abigail Bloch, MOT, OTR/L
Team Lead
Abigail Bloch
MOT, OTR/L
Abby attended the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where she received a Bachelor’s of Science in Kinesiology, with a minor in Neuroscience. She then attended the College of St. Scholastica, where she received her Master’s degree in Occupational Therapy. Abby’s areas of special interest include brain body connection, regulation, and executive functioning. She is a certified Spelling to Communicate practitioner. Abby enjoys working with clients and their families to improve their everyday lives.
Marina Underberg, COTA/L
Marina Underberg
COTA/L
Marina has been working as a Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant since 2017 after earning an Associates degree from St. Catherine’s University. Her areas of special interests are cognitive and visual impairments and sensory integration. Marina is passionate about discovering her clients personalities and watching them gain confidence through their independence.