Keri Hoyt

Chief Operating Officer & President Noodle

Last Reviewed: September 28, 2026

Executive Summary

Keri Hoyt is Chief Operating Officer and President of Noodle, a company that provides strategy, services and AI-powered tools to colleges and universities, where she also leads its Learning service team and works alongside CEO John Katzman. Her career spans both ends of American education: 18 years at The Princeton Review helping colleges improve marketing, admissions and online programming, followed by seven years running operations at Success Academy Charter Schools as the New York City network grew from four schools to more than thirty. She also chairs the Board of Trustees of Zeta Charter Schools in New York City.

Career Highlights

• Chief Operating Officer and President of Noodle, and lead of its Learning service team.
• Executive Vice President of Schooling and Chief Operating Officer of Success Academy Charter Schools for seven years, overseeing operations as the network grew from four to 32 schools serving 12,000 students.
• Spent 18 years at The Princeton Review partnering with higher-education institutions on marketing, admissions and online programming, and developing marketing and product-development expertise.
• Chair of the Board of Trustees of Zeta Charter Schools - NYC.
• Holds an MBA from Wharton and a BA in English from the University of New Hampshire.

Professional Journey

Hoyt spent the first 18 years of her career at The Princeton Review. According to Noodle, she worked with colleges and universities there to improve their marketing and admissions processes, helped build online programming, and developed her marketing and product-development skills.

She then moved from serving higher education to running schools. At Success Academy Charter Schools in New York City she was Executive Vice President of Schooling and Chief Operating Officer for seven years, overseeing operations during a period in which, according to Zeta Charter Schools, the network expanded from four schools to 32 serving 12,000 students. Noodle’s account describes her as running 34 elementary, middle and high schools across the city.

At Noodle she returned to higher education. The company works with colleges and universities across the student lifecycle, from market intelligence and recruitment through enrollment, learning design, student retention and workforce-oriented lifelong learning, and increasingly through AI-enabled tools. Noodle’s leadership page lists her as Chief Operating Officer and President and as lead of the company’s Learning service team, reporting into a leadership group headed by Chief Executive Officer John Katzman.

Outside Noodle, she chairs the Board of Trustees of Zeta Charter Schools - NYC.

Education

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

MBA

University of New Hampshire

BA, English