Noah Hyams

Bio

Swiss-American Noah Hyams was born in Bern, Switzerland, and later moved to Chappaqua, New York in middle school. Noah speaks fluent English, Swiss-German, and German.

While in high school, Noah was accepted into and attended the Manhattan School of Music Precollege program for Jazz Performance. He also was the head drummer in the Jazz Standard's Youth Orchestra. In 2011, Noah was accepted into New York University’s Steinhardt Jazz Program as a Jazz Drums major. During this time Noah performed with artists such as Charlie Puth and Julius Rodriguez.

During his sophomore year at NYU, Noah co-produced 'Chips Off the Block', an NYU Tisch student's senior thesis film. He also began work as a production assistant on feature films, TV shows and ads such as The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Birdman, Newsroom, Person of Interest, Snapchat, and Essie. Noah would soon decide to change his studies at NYU to Music Business with a Film Producing minor in the Tisch School of the Arts.

After launching the meal-sharing app Swipe Me, Noah won first place at the Build a Better NYU Hackathon, and began his entrepreneurial pursuit of the peer tutoring app Studor. In March 2015, he won first place at the Idea Pitch Hashathon at the NYU Entrepreneurial Festival. In May, his startup Studor was accepted into the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute's Summer Launchpad program, sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

Today Noah lives in Los Angeles and runs Songathon and VEGPRENEUR. His work has been featured by the Recording Academy//GRAMMYs, Bloomberg Radio, Variety, BrooklynVegan, Business Insider, Plant Based News, and American Songwriter Magazine. He also helps manage R&B musical group Sheer Element, which was most recently on Season 23 of NBC’s The Voice, coached by Kelly Clarkson.

Noah also shoots videos and photos for various brands (Morning Brew, NYU), events, and musicians, while continuing to perform with various artists as a drummer.

Noah has been invited to speak and mentor in entrepreneurship classes at New York University, the City University of New York, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is also a guest contributor to publications such as Green Queen.