He remained CEO of Adidas until 2001, combining this position with chairmanship of Neuf Telecom with whom he served until 2004. Louis-Dreyfus added to the brand by streamlining the product line and adding new companies to the group, including the Salomon ski-wear and golf company in 1997. He proved equally successful when in 1994 he took the top job at Adidas, the German-based sporting goods maker. Louis-Dreyfus invested his own money in Saatchi and Saatchi and during his tenure the agency grew considerably. He served as CE at Saatchi & Saatchi, the United Kingdom-based advertising agency from 1989 to 1993. His original US$400,000 grew twentyfold by the time the company was sold in 1988. In 1982 Louis-Dreyfus joined IMS, the US pharmaceutical research company enjoying spectacular monetary success. He spent the early years of his working life mentored by Siegmund Warburg, in the family business of the Louis-Dreyfus Group. He later secured a place at Harvard Business School with a presentation about his experiences during the war. In 1967, he spent time at a kibbutz and was involved in the Six Day War. Robert Louis-Dreyfus was initially a bad student who failed his Baccalauréat, but he excelled at poker, winning considerable amounts of money from his friends at the Lycée Janson de Sailly in Paris. He has two sisters: Marie-Jeanne and Monique. His grandfather was Louis Louis-Dreyfus, who served in the French Parliament during the French Third Republic. He was a great grandson of Léopold Louis-Dreyfus, founder of the Louis-Dreyfus Group, which had begun buying and selling wheat in the Alsace region a century earlier, and rapidly diversified into shipping, oil and other commodities. His father was Jewish and his mother Roman Catholic. Robert Louis-Dreyfus was born in Paris, the son of Jean and Jeanne Madeline (née Depierre) Louis-Dreyfus.
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