Christian W.E. Haub (born 1964) is a German billionaire businessman. He is the CEO of the

Tengelmann Group Tengelmann Warenhandelsgesellschaft KG, doing business as the Tengelmann Group, is a holding company based in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. Structure The corporation has the following subsidiaries: * KiK Textilien und Non-Food GmbH, with over 3 ...

, the chairman and president of Emil Capital Partners and a former director and

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from December 1991 to February 2002. As of August 2021, Haub has an estimated net worth of US$2.9 billion. Haub is a partner and CEO of Tengelmann. Haub is a director of

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, Canada, and was a director of the Food Marketing Institute, and director of BrightFarms as of 2015. In A&P, was CEO (since May 1998), executive chairman (since August 2005) and chair of the executive committee (since May 2001). In addition, Haub was president from December 1993 through February 2002, and from November 2002 through November 2004.

Other roles

Haub is a member at the

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board of trustees, an advisory board member of the

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in Canada and a former member of the board of trustees of

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. In 2009, Haub was a

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at the

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in New York City, the largest celebration of

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friendship in the US. Haub has in the past collaborated with The Children's Health Fund. In December 2014, the

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unveiled its new ''Haub Family Galleries'' wing, following

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and Helga Haub's donation of $20 million and 295 pieces of Western art to the institution. The galleries have become one of the foremost collections of Western art in North America. In 2015, Haub and his wife, Liliane, were awarded the James F. Cleary '50, H'93 Masters Award from Boston College for helping to ''"engage a growing network of current-student parents with BC"'' and spreading ''"the message of BC's increasing reputation for excellence"''.

Personal life

Haub is married to Liliane; they have four children and live in

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, Germany.

References

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