Laura McHolm – Founder & Chief Marketing Officer – NorthStar Moving Company

One of the few women at the helm of a moving company, Laura McHolm had an unlikely start as co-founder of NorthStar Moving Company. Laura began university at the age of 16. After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley she taught basic programming on Apple computers, then worked in marketing for Atari while the company was still in its infancy, and after law school, she worked as a corporate intellectual property lawyer.

In the mid-1990s she moved away from the Fortune 500 to fulfill her more creative, entrepreneurial spirit and co-founded NorthStar Moving Company. Laura coined the phrase “eco-luxury moving services” and is changing the way we move by selling the red carpet treatment. Her fastest growing privately held company is the go to mover for A-List celebrities, The Getty and other movers and shakers and has been featured in Elle Décor, The Hollywood Reporter, Vanity Fair, The Robb Report, Fortune Magazine, CNN Money, NBC Nightly News and more. Honored with more awards for service than any other moving company, Laura has broken the long-held notion of moving and storage as burly men doing one job – lifting heavy things.