[3] His list of clients has included Harry Winston, Bergdorf Goodman, Prada, Chopard, Escada, and Bulgari, and Veuve Clicquot.
He attended American University in Washington, D.C.[9] According to Hay in an interview with Flatt magazine, he was named after his Uncle, A. Robert Couri, a world war two veteran.
[21] He has worked with luxury brands such as Harry Winston, Bergdorf Goodman, Prada, Chopard, Escada, and Bulgari, and organized philanthropic events for the Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, Henry Street Settlement, the Central Park Conservancy, and the Lighthouse International; his work with New Yorkers for Children resulted in the first benefit event after 9/11.
Hay starred in Anton Perich's public access television show[24] and interviewed artists like Louise Nevelson and John Cage.
The Los Angeles Times labeled Hay one of the interviewers who had the "skill and subtlety to draw... flashes of devilish wit and astute observation, as well as delicious gossip.
[4] Until it was sold late in 2018, Hay wrote a monthly society column for Avenue Magazine (New York) covering the "Hamptons chicest galas and posh private parties[29] to "Happenings in Manhattan and the South Fork.
[40] In the fall of 2014, New York Magazine announced that Hay's collection of Charles James' sketches would be displayed at The National Arts Club.
[41] The New York Times art critic Roberta Smith reviewed the exhibition, "Charles James Beneath the Dress," at The National Arts Club saying: "Nothing reflects the complex, sometimes fraught sensibility of the great fashion designer Charles James as completely as his drawings...this exhibition presents 93 drawings from the 1960s and '70s.
"[42] In 2015, Hay appeared weekly on The Charles James Story, a documentary series on the designer by Anton Perich that aired on cable television every Monday night.
[48] His grandmother Alice White was a concert pianist who attended the New England Conservatory of Music and Juilliard School, and performed for American troops in Europe during World War II as a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.