# Celebrate Possible

1 Stern Stories August 3, 2019 Alumna Rebecca Patterson (MBA ‘05) addresses the Executive MBA Class of 2019 at their Graduation Celebration on August 3 >

![Executive MBA alumna Rebecca Patterson](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/images/Celebrate-Possible---EMBA-Graduation-2019---Body-1.jpg)
*Executive MBA alumna Rebecca Patterson (‘05), Chief Investment Officer at Bessemer Trust, delivers the keynote address at the Graduation Celebration for the Executive MBA Class of 2019*

[Executive MBA](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/programs-admissions/executive-mba-nyc) students from the Class of 2019, along with family and friends, gathered at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts to celebrate their scholastic achievements in a Graduation Celebration. Program highlights included: - Remarks from Dean [Raghu Sundaram](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/about/leadership/nyu-stern-dean-raghu-sundaram)
- Keynote address from Executive MBA alumna Rebecca Patterson (‘05), Chief Investment Officer at Bessemer Trust, where she manages more than $80 billion worth of high-net-worth family assets and is also a member of the firm’s Management Committee.
- Student speakers Joseph Cook from the January class and Brian Keith McNeil from the August class
- Faculty speaker [Robert Salomon](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/robert-salomon), Vice Dean of Executive Programs
- Recognition of class representatives Pooja Agarwal, Daniel Baker, Joseph Cook and Megan Crossman from the January class; and Avery Joshua, Drew Mehta, Rehan Rashid and Julia Rizhevsky from the August class

![Dean Raghu Sundaram](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/images/Celebrate-Possible---EMBA-Graduation-2019---Body-2.jpg)
*Dean Raghu Sundaram*

![Professor Robert Salomon, Vice Dean of Executive Programs](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/images/Celebrate-Possible---EMBA-Graduation-2019---Body-3.jpg)
*Professor Robert Salomon, Vice Dean of Executive Programs*

![Dean Raghu Sundaram addresses the Executive MBA Class of 2019 at their Graduation Celebration](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/images/Celebrate-Possible---EMBA-Graduation-2019---Body-4.jpg)
*Dean Raghu Sundaram addresses the Executive MBA Class of 2019 at their Graduation Celebration*