Michael Lewis Becker
Advertising director
Michael Lewis "Mike" Becker (born October 30, 1940, in Toledo, Ohio) was a major Madison Avenue advertising creative director. In 1998 he formed a small marketing communications firm in suburban New Jersey.
Early life
In 1942, his father, Dr. Nathan M. Becker, a professor of economics, accepted a position at The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Becker lived there until he was 4 and then toward the end of World War II, his parents moved to Washington, D.C., as his father accepted a position working for Adlai Stevenson in the State Department.
Becker's father eventually took a position at Pace University and from the age of 13 Becker grew up with his brother and sister in West Orange, New Jersey (Pace University maintains an annual Nathan Becker Memorial Scholarship for students who major in economics ). He graduated from Syracuse University and after military service delivered traffic helicopter reports for three years for a New York/New Jersey radio station. He was one of the first helicopter traffic reporters in the country. Becker traveled to several major European countries to see if their major radio stations were interested in helicopter traffic reports but they were not.
Advertising career
In 1966 Becker was trained and hired by an advertising executive named Bill (William) Casey.
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