Joel Embry

Joel Embry is a community developer and consultant based in Jacksonville, Florida. He has more than 35 years in commercial, office and residential community development as owner and CEO of Civic Software, Inc.

Joel has led the planning, entitlement and implementation of mixed-use projects in Florida and Georgia. In addition to developing eight residential communities and commercial properties on Amelia Island, Florida, including the award-winning New Urbanism neighborhood Amelia Park, Joel has served as owner’s representative in the planning and permitting of the 400-acre Summer Beach Resort and Ritz-Carlton Hotel on Amelia Island; Clark’s Grove Traditional Neighborhood in Covington, Georgia; and the 2,000-acre mixed-use Welaunee Critical Area Plan in Tallahassee, Florida.

In addition to co-founding Civic Telehealth, Joel is co-founder and managing member of Oceanic Data Centers, a developer of data center campuses.

Joel has served as board member of the LeRoy Collins Institute at Florida State University, 1000 Friends of Florida and National Town Builders Association, and he is a graduate of Leadership Florida, where he served as founding chairman of the Leadership Florida Institute.

He is a graduate of the Florida State University School of Business. Before founding his real estate development firm on Amelia Island in 1979, he was trust officer and director of real estate assets at Barnett Banks Trust Company.