Noah Kerner

Noah Kerner

Author, marketeer and former DJ - Influential business executive

Noah Kerner has been featured in Billboard Magazine as "Top 30 under 30" most influential business executive.

Noah Kerner began his music career as a DJ at the age of 14 spinning in nightclubs across the country, performing as stage DJ for artists like Jennifer Lopez, and appearing on nationally syndicated US shows such as The Today Show and The Tonight Show.

At 23, Noah Kerner was managing online marketing for the VH1 Group and by 25, he had co-founded a leading edge marketing agency. The agency fuses marketing, design, and technology to help brands navigate emerging media platforms and to develop ideas that push new boundaries. The company has been featured twice on 60 Minutes as the place "to go to if you want to influence the choices of that fickle, unpredictable 20-something demographic." As CEO, Noah and his team build break through campaigns for their clients such as Bacardi USA, Chase, Six Flags and Yahoo.

In May 2007, Noah’s first book Chasing Cool: Standing Out In Today’s Cluttered Marketplace was published. Co-authored with legendary creative visionary Gene Pressman, former co-CEO of Barneys, the book’s razor-sharp examination of branding and popular culture is furnished with exclusive insights from more than 70 of today’s brand-building icons from Clive Davis, Russell Simmons, Bob Pittman and Sofia Coppola to Ian Schrager, Christina Aguilera, Tony Hawk, and Tom Ford. Chasing Cool has been featured in media such as NPR (National Public Radio), CBS News, Business Week, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, WWD, The Financial Times, Brandweek, Advertising Age, Vanity Fair, W Magazine, GQ, MTV News, and New York Magazine.

Noah Kerner was featured in Billboard Magazine’s "Top 30 Under 30" most influential business executives. His recent public speaking engagements include Fairchild Publications’ Annual CEO Summit and eBay’s Speaker Series. Further, he just contributed his first Op. Ed. feature in Advertising Age and writes a bi-monthly ‘anti-trend’ index for Departures Magazine.

Noah is a graduate of Cornell University where he double majored in Economics and Psychology.