2024 honorary chair: MIKE HALEY

The HAECO Invitational honorary chair is a person that made a significant commitment to the HAECO Invitational or the Greensboro Sports Council over the years.

Mike Haley has done a lot in his life, and while he counts among his accomplishments a very successful business career, he might just be most proud of his commitment to sports over the years. The 1985 Greensboro Sports Council president is a Greensboro native and an alumnus of Grimsley High School and the University of North Carolina. Haley was one of the Greensboro Sports Council members that worked to get Greensboro Day School into what was then the Little 4 Invitational in the 1980s.

Haley is a past general chairman (1971) and honorary chairman (2006) of the Wyndham Championship and serves on the Piedmont Triad Charitable Foundation board of directors, the body that oversees Wyndham Championship tournament operations. A life member of the Greensboro Jaycees, Haley served on the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce, Greensboro Rotary and the General Green Council of Boy Scouts boards of directors.

He is the retired CEO of Triton Management Company which opened the first McDonalds in North Carolina and went onto own 60 McDonald’s restaurants which the company sold to McDonalds Corporation in 1990. Triton was at one time the largest McDonalds franchisee in the country. Haley was a founding investor and board member of CREE research which became CREE, Inc. The company’s blue LED was instrumental in developing today’s LED light bulb.

Haley, and his wife, Lynn, have two daughters; he has enjoyed jogging, reading, golf and fly fishing. On behalf of everyone associated with the Greensboro Sports Council and the HAECO Invitational, thanks, Mike!!

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