Mitch Garber (born September 5, 1964) is a Canadian lawyer, investor and business executive. He was awarded the

Order of Canada The Order of Canada () is a Canadian state order, national order and the second-highest Award, honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, after the Order of Merit. To coincide with the Canadian Centennial, ce ...

in 2019, that country's highest civilian honour.

Career

Mitch Garber is a member of the Executive Advisory Council of Apollo Global Management, Inc., Executive Committee member and minority owner of the

NHL The National Hockey League (NHL; , ''LNH'') is a professional ice hockey league in North America composed of 32 teams25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. The NHL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Cana ...

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, and board member and co-investor at

Rackspace Technology Rackspace Technology, Inc. is an American cloud computing company based in San Antonio, Texas. It also has offices in Blacksburg, Virginia, Blacksburg, Virginia and Austin, Texas, as well as in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, India, Dubai, Sw ...

Shutterfly Shutterfly, LLC. is an American photography, photography products, and image sharing company, headquartered in San Jose, California. The company is mainly known for custom photo printing services, including books featuring user-provided images, ...

, Lanvin, and he is the co-founder and Chairman of Israeli AI company Aiola Inc. He practiced law from 1990–1999, and was a co-founder of Paysafe (then SureFire Commerce), where he was CEO from 2003–2006. He was CEO of Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment (then PartyGaming Plc) from 2006–2008, and left to create Caesars Interactive Entertainment with

TPG Inc. TPG Inc., previously known as Texas Pacific Group and TPG Capital, is an American private equity firm based in Fort Worth, Texas. TPG manages investment funds in growth capital, venture capital, stock, public equity, and debt investments. The f ...

and

Apollo Global Management Apollo Global Management, Inc. is an American asset management firm that primarily invests in alternative assets. , the company had $548 billion of assets under management, including $392 billion invested in credit, including mezzanine capita ...

. He left Caesars Acquisition Co. (CACQ) on October 6, 2017 after overseeing the sale of Playtika and the merger of CACQ and Caesars Entertainment. He was the inaugural Chairman of Invest In Canada ( Investment Canada), the Canadian government agency responsible for attracting and facilitating foreign direct investment (FDI) into Canada from 2018–2022. He was the chairman of

Cirque Du Soleil Cirque du Soleil (, ; ) is a Canadian entertainment company and the largest contemporary circus producer in the world. Located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, Montreal, Saint-Michel, Montreal, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul on 16 Jun ...

from 2015–2020.

Philanthropy

He has led the annual campaign for Montreal's

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(Centraide), Montreal's Combined Jewish Appeal, and has presided over and chaired events and campaigns raising in excess of 200 million dollars. He currently sits on the Foundation Board of the Montreal Children's Hospital.

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