Background
Edward Saatchi is the son of Maurice Saatchi (Lord Saatchi) and Josephine Hart.
Edward Saatchi is the son of Maurice Saatchi (Lord Saatchi) and Josephine Hart.
He was educated at London"s Westminster School and Wadham College in Oxford, where he took a double first in English. He attended the Sorbonne for graduate studies in Philosophy and Economics before leaving for America to volunteer for Barack Obama"s 2008 Presidential campaign.
Saatchi was initially rejected in his efforts to join the Obama campaign because of his alien status, but eventually permitted to participate after personally presenting himself at a campaign office in Iowa. During his tenure with the campaign, he met Aharon Wasserman and Justin Lewis. The three developed an "internal social network" to more easily keep track of campaign data and coordinate communications between managers, staff, and volunteers.
The network was rapidly adopted across multiple branches of the campaign and eventually commercialised in its present form as NationalField.
He currently serves as the company"s Chief Executive Officer. In 2011, Saatchi, along with his co-founders, was named in Forbes"s 30 Under 30.