Words matter.
And leaders in business, politics, tech, and philanthropy turn to A.H. Levy & Co. to help them convey their ideas with nuance and care.
Intro
Founded in 2016 by Alex Levy, former chief speechwriter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, A.H. Levy & Co. has worked with Fortune 500 CEOs and startup founders, university presidents and leading philanthropists, former Cabinet secretaries and rising stars in Congress. What they all have in common: a belief in the power of good ideas, persuasively stated, to drive impact.
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Alex Levy
Alex Levy is a media strategist, speechwriter, and four-time Tony Award-winning producer based in New York.
Before founding A.H. Levy & Co. in 2016, Alex worked as chief speechwriter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, as a VP at the public affairs firm SKDKnickerbocker, as an associate at the law firm Paul Weiss, and as a law clerk to Chief Judge Patti Saris of the Federal District Court in Boston.
Alex’s writings on behalf of clients have appeared in every major American publication, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Vogue. He has written under his own name for The New York Times.
Alex is a member of the Board of Trustees of NYU School of Law and vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of the nonprofit theater Playwrights Horizons. He has produced eight Broadway shows: Sunset Blvd. (2024), Job (2024), Stereophonic (Tony Award, Best Play, 2024), Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club (2024), Alex Edelman's Just For Us (2023), Parade (Tony Award, Best Revival of a Musical, 2023), A Strange Loop (Tony Award, Best Musical, 2022) and Company (Tony Award, Best Revival of a Musical, 2022).
A native of Buffalo, New York, Alex received his BA, with honors, from Wesleyan University, and his JD, magna cum laude and Order of the Coif, from NYU School of Law.
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Alex Levy helps big shots say the right thing.
Alex Levy, 37, describes himself blandly as an “adviser to people in public life.” New York Review of Books editor Emily Greenhouse calls him “the secret macher whisperer beneath Gotham.” His ex-boss, Senator Chuck Schumer, attests, “He always gives great advice.” What that means is Levy is on hand to help various eminences sound eminently reasonable. His clients, who hire him on long-term retainer, have included Robert Rubin, Steve Ballmer, Ronald Lauder, Shari Redstone, and Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick — not to mention the top brass of the New York Times (including various Sulzbergers who work at the family biz). — Brock Colyar, October 2023
Team
Jesse Oxfeld
Jesse Oxfeld, managing director of A.H. Levy & Co., joined the firm in 2017 as a contributing senior writer and took on his current position in 2024. He is a speechwriter, strategist, and former journalist. For six years, he served as communications advisor and speechwriter to the president of Pace University, in lower Manhattan, where he guided the university’s messaging through the Covid-19 pandemic. He previously worked in creative roles at Vox Creative, the in-house content studio at Vox Media, and Ogilvy & Mather. As a journalist, he was an editor at New York Magazine, the theater critic at The New York Observer, an editor at Gawker.com, and a leader of the founding team at Tablet Magazine. He is a graduate of Stanford University.
Jimmy Soni
Jimmy Soni, an award-winning author, speechwriter, and media professional, joined A.H. Levy & Co. in 2020 as a contributing senior writer. Under his own name, his work has appeared in The Atlantic, Slate, Forbes, and many other publications. His last book, THE FOUNDERS: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley, was a national bestseller and was called one of the "books to read in 2022" by the Financial Times and "an intensely magnetic chronicle" by The New York Times. He began his career at McKinsey & Company and is a graduate of Duke University.
Caleb Spiegel Ostrom
Caleb Spiegel Ostrom first joined A.H. Levy & Co. in 2018 as an associate and rejoined the firm as vice president in 2024. A writer, strategist, and book editor, Caleb served for more than two years as a speechwriter to the Mayor of New York City, where he shaped messaging on the most important matters facing New Yorkers. Previously, he staffed the 2020 presidential campaigns of Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden. He is a graduate of Harvard College.
Jared Reinfeldt
Jared Reinfeldt joined A.H. Levy & Co in 2023 as Chief of Staff. As an actor, he’s appeared in plays and musicals Off-Broadway and around the country. His film and television work includes projects with Greta Gerwig, Ryan Murphy, Steven Soderbergh, Gus Van Sant, and Kathryn Bigelow. Jared is a graduate of Boston College.