Co-founder & SVP of Fashion at Sam Edelman
CAS '77

Libby Edelman is the Senior Vice President of Fashion at Sam Edelman.  Libby’s innate style was born working as a fashion editor at Harper’s Bazaar and Seventeen and on the client side as Public Relations Director for Calvin Klein.  During her time in publishing, she met aspiring shoe designer Sam Edelman, her future business partner and husband.

Libby and Sam were selected as recipients of the Footwear News Hall of Fame Award in 2015. Libby, an NYU alum, continues to give back to the community though FFANY Shoes on Sale, which fundraises for breast cancer research and education, Two Ten Footwear Foundation, where she and Sam have scholarships towards higher education in their name, and Two Ten WiFi, where she helps create a community of support for women. Libby and Sam also serve as Global Special Ambassadors for Sheba Medical Center, the most comprehensive medical center in the Middle East, and support the Ability Beyond organization that helps thousands with physical and mental disabilities.

Founder & CEO of Sprinklr
Stern '03

Ragy Thomas is a technology visionary, entrepreneur, and investor who has played an instrumental role in the evolution of two business-critical channels for the enterprise: social media and email. As founder and CEO of Sprinklr – the world’s most complete enterprise social technology serving more than 1,000 enterprise brands globally – he is empowering companies to reimagine their customer-facing operations to manage consumer experiences across every touch point.

Prior to founding Sprinklr, Ragy was the president of Epsilon’s (NYSE:ADS) Interactive Services from 2006 to 2008, and the CTO of Bigfoot Interactive, an email marketing leader that Epsilon acquired in 2005.

Ragy earned his M.B.A. in Finance and Information Systems from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business and his Computer Science Engineering degree from Pondicherry University in India. He serves on the board of directors at Kenscio, a digital marketing services company he co-founded in 2009, and Cloth, a mobile fashion application company.

Founding CTO of Audible.com
Courant '80

As GM for Automotive, Alexa Voice Services, Guy Story has primary responsibility for bringing Alexa, the voice service that powers Amazon Echo and other devices, to the automotive sector. 

Prior to joining Amazon in 2015, Story was CTO & Chief Scientist at Audible.com, the Internet’s leading provider of premium digital spoken audio information and entertainment, where he led the architecture and development of Audible’s innovative mobile audio and Internet commerce technologies. At Audible Guy was responsible for two recent game-changing innovations in electronic publishing – Immersion Reading and Whispersync for Voice – bringing new benefits to customers who own matching Kindle books and Audible audiobooks.

Long ago, in the last millennium, Guy worked in research and development for over 10 years at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies, where his areas of focus included networked delivery of multimedia documents and interactive television.

Story received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rice University and a M.S. in Computer Science from New York University. He has been awarded multiple patents in the fields of digital media synchronization and distribution, document processing, and interactive television.