Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi
British businessman, politician (born 1946)
Maurice Nathan Saatchi, Baron Saatchi (Arabic: موريس ساعتجي; born 21 June 1946) is a British businessman, and with his brother, Charles, the co-founder of the advertising agencies Saatchi & Saatchi and M&C Saatchi.
Early life
Maurice Saatchi is the third of four sons born to Nathan Saatchi and Daisy Ezer, a wealthy Jewish family in Baghdad, Iraq. Maurice's brothers are David (born 1937), Charles Nathan (born 1943) and Philip (born 1953). Nathan was a successful textile merchant, and in 1947 he pre-empted a flight that tens of thousands of Iraqi Jews would soon make to avoid persecution and relocated his family to Finchley in London. Nathan purchased two textile mills in north London and after a time re-built a thriving business. Eventually the family would settle into a house with eight bedrooms on Hampstead Lane in Highgate.
Saatchi attended Tollington Grammar School and graduated from the London School of Economics with a first class honours degree in Sociology in 1967. His first job was at Haymarket Publications where Maurice would form valuable relationships with Michael Heseltine, the group managing director and with staff at the Haymarket's leading trade weekly for the ad industry Campaign. He spent three years at Haymarket as promotions manager before leaving to join his brother Charles' fledgling ad agency.
Career
Saatchi and Saatchi
In 1970, Saatchi, with his brother, formed the advertising and communications agency Saatchi & Saatchi.
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