Early Career and Background
Saul was born in New York City. He graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 and began his career with Brooks Fashion Stores, rising to become its President, and growing the company into a large corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Along with his father Joseph, he then purchased the bankrupt South Florida women's apparel company Caché Inc. (NASDAQ:CACH), and restored it to solvency. The company is now an upscale fashion store with 300 outlets around the world, and is publicly traded on the NASDAQ. He has served on the board of directors since 1986, and as Chairman of the Board from February 1993 to October 2000. In 1986, he founded an investment firm with his father, Saul Partners, L.P. as a partner. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, the United Jewish Appeal Federation, the Sarah Neuman Nursing Home, the Wharton School of Business, the Manhattan Institute, and Mount Sinai Hospital, New York. He is also a member of the Chairman's Council of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a patron of the Museum of Modern Art, and is one of the top art collectors in New York, with extensive holdings of modern art and contemporary art, especially post war American and Chinese bronzes.
He and his wife Denise have two daughters, one of whom is active in Republican politics. His father suffered a stroke in 1996, and Saul became the primary caregiver, making a three-hour round trip drive to Long Island several times a week in order to check on his parents and accompany them to physician appointments while still the CEO of a major corporation. Joseph Saul died in 2007.
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