At age 19 Jacques enrolled in medical school and moved from Paris to the south of France. This is where he first understood the human body as a one of nature’s most complex and beautiful designs. The functionality of the lungs, the power of the heart, the connectivity of the muscular system opened new neural pathways for Jacques as a budding designer.
Back in Paris a few years later, he began studying at Ecole Bleue, mastering architectural design and experiencing the world through his deep understanding of design as a discipline. Along the way he became an expert in Blender, the most complex 3D software environment driving virtual reality asset creation.
In the summer of 2017, Jacques arrived in Brooklyn and quickly became one of Nova’s founding members. Thanks to his intricate understanding of brand creation, the story of Nova deepened. Its 3D logo and graphic charter were born, and its image solidified. www.novamedia.nyc features Jacques’ hand-crafted visuals, each inspired by his understanding of design, advanced technology, and extended reality as an emerging market.
He recently, under the Nova brand name, designed each of the characters for a Google-backed immersive 360 experience called Armonia. It will be featured at film festivals across North America in 2019. Only as XR begins attracting more artists of his caliber will it blossom.
After graduating with a degree in marketing from Purdue University, Joe returned to the northeast to work for Clear Channel as an account executive, selling sponsorships direct to brands. With an average of $1 million in sales per year, Joe led execution of mutli-platform campaigns (events, radio, web, mobile, video) and was the point of contact for clients. His role evolved into innovating tech integrations for programming and commercial content, before departing for extended travel to Europe and the Middle East.
In 2016 he again returned to New York and tried virtual reality for the first time. Instantly recognizing it as the future of media, he began Nova Media out of his apartment and without capital backing. While assembling a team, Nova bootstrapped its business, producing and developing XR software for individuals and multinational brands. Today, Joe and Nova continue to create bleeding edge content from their studio in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
He is a natural fit for the CEO position, identify talent in others and motivating them to produce for the company within the realm of their skills and interests. Philosophically, his belief in the power of the mind endlessly drives his positive outlook in all circumstances.
He has been leading media campaigns since his time at Purdue, where he wrote for the Greek Newspaper. He went on to be the sales director and publisher, expanding circulation from 6,000 to 17,000 weekly, growing sales from $10,000 in annual revenue to $25,000.
Six months after graduating from Fordham University, Kyle became a writer and on-camera broadcaster for the New York Yankees. In his final season, as part of a 5-person production team, he wrote and voiced an Emmy-winning episodic series documenting the rise of young players in the organization. http://m.mlb.com/nyy/video/topic/70621648/v531265383/arizona-fall-league-gary-sanchez
Inspired by New York’s entrepreneurial scene, Kyle sourced his production skills and began his own interview-based show, Fifteen Minutes. Within the first 18 months of the show, he interviewed a world class aerobatics pilot, a broadway actress, a former major league baseball player, and a gold-medal winning chef. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD6bsfgiocg
During extended travel through Latin America, he wrote his first manuscript at the start of 2016. It is a 7-part book of short stories, each chapter introducing characters who are meeting for the first time. The book exists among their homes, minds, and transience as they gain coordination with internal dialogue and exploration of new cultures.
Returning to New York, Kyle met Joe and discovered VR. The experience resonated and sent him on a research journey through the history of media and the evolution of mass human connectivity. Soon he became Nova’s writer and next co-founder, establishing its marketing philosophy and passion for human-to-human connection.
With an affinity for language and voice, Kyle simplifies complex concepts into comprehensive writings and conversations, bridging many divides among artists, engineers, and businesses.
Thomas introduces an extraordinarily global perspective. Born in Egypt and raised among Paris, Houston, and Dubai, he is natively fluent in French and English. Inspired by 20th century giants like Richard Feynman and Albert Einstein, he gravitated to physics at and landed at one of the finest engineering schools in the US, Purdue University.
Purdue owns the second most trafficked airport in the state of Indiana, and this is where Thomas earned his degree in aeronautical engineering. He went on to design hydrogen fuel cell prototypes at Zodiac Aerospace before consulting at Ailancy in Paris.
Engrossed in the process and obsessed with how things work, he could not resist the hands-on opportunity when Joe (his former Purdue classmate) shared Nova’s incubating business plan in 2017. Immediately, Thomas began sourcing his self-taught coding skills. Within a year he had built novamedia.nyc on React, writing the codebase in JavaScript.
As computer programming continues shifting into 3D, developers like Thomas, with a true engineering background, are leading the way.