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{{Infobox sportsperson
[[Category:Rhodesia (The Grand Imperial Alliance)]]
| name = Marcus Haar
{{Infobox person
| image = Marcus_Haar_2019.png
| image = Marcus_Haar_2019.png
| image_size = 250px
| image_size = 250px
| caption = Haar at the [[Livingstone International Film Festival]] in July 2019
| caption = Haar at the 2019 King's Ball
| full_name = Marcus William Haar
| birth_name =  
| nationality = Rhodelander
| other_names =
| sport = Athletics
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1985|10|31}}
| event = [[100 meters]], [[4x100 m relay]]
| birth_place=[[Livingstone]], [[Rhodeland]]
| club = Southern Athletics
| death_date =
| collegeteam = [[University of Rhodeland|Rhodeland Leopards]]
| death_place =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1978|10|27}}
| education =  
| birth_place = [[Broken Hill]], [[Rhodeland]]
| alma_mater = [[University of Rhodeland]]
| spouse = [[Alexander Haar]] (m. 2012)
| occupation = {{wpl|Chairman}} and {{wpl|Chief executive officer|CEO}} <small>(2016-Present)</small><br>{{wpl|Celebrity|Media personality}} and {{wpl|Model (person)|Model}} <small>(XXX-2016)</small>
| retired = 2008
| height = {{height|ft=6|in=2}}
| height = 180 cm
| salary =
| weight = 87 kg
| spouse = {{marriage|Ariel Smith|2016}}
| country = {{nowrap|[[File:Rhodeland_Flag.png|25px]] [[United States national athletics team|Rhodeland]]}}
| parents = Vance Haar Jr<br>Sharon Haar
| pb = {{Unbulleted list
| children = 2
|'''100&nbsp;m''': 10.20 s <br><small>([[XXXX]], 2000)</small>
| family =  
|'''4×100 m relay''': 37.40 s <br><small>([[XXXX]], 2007)</small>}}
|medaltemplates =  {{MedalSport|Men's [[Athletics (sport)|Athletics]]}}
{{MedalCountry|[[File:Rhodeland_Flag.png|25px]] Rhodeland}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Grand Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[2000 Summer Grand Olympics|2000 XXX]]|100 m}}
{{MedalGold|2000 XXX|4×100 m relay}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2004 Summer Grand Olympics|2004 XXX]]|100 m}}
{{MedalGold|[[2008 Summer Grand Olympics|2008 XXX]]|100 m}}
{{MedalGold|2008 XXX|4×100 m relay}}
{{MedalCompetition|{{wpl|World Athletics Championships|World Championships}}}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1985 IAAF World Cup|1999 XXX]]|100 m}}
{{MedalGold|[[1985 IAAF World Cup|2003 XXX]]|100 m}}
{{MedalGold|[[1985 IAAF World Cup|2007 XXX]]|100 m}}
{{MedalGold|2007 XXX|4×100 metres relay}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Goodwill Games]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[2001 Goodwill Games|2001 Christiania]]|100 m}}
{{MedalSilver|2001 Christiania|4×100 m relay}}
{{MedalGold|[[2005 Goodwill Games|2005 Shiloh]]|100 m}}
|show-medals    =  
}}
}}


'''Marcus William “Mark” Haar''' ({{wpl|''née''}} '''Troutman''', born 25 October 1978) is a former sprint track and field athlete from [[Rhodeland]]. Haar is the President and CEO of [[Cinema Centers]], his family’s company, which is the largest family-owned operator of movie theaters in Rhodeland. Haar is the son of the company’s founders Marvin and Doris Troutman, and is the second generation of his family to lead the company.                            
'''Marcus William “Mark” Haar''' (born October 31, 1985) is a Rhodelander business executive and entrepreneur who is widely noted as a [[Edward Lewis]] protégé. He is currently the Chairman and CEO of MWH Partners, LP. Haar is also known for his previous career as a {{wpl|Celebrity|media personality}} and {{wpl|Model (person)|model}}. He is the son of Vance Haar Jr and Sharon Haar (née Bryan), and a grandson of former [[President of Rhodeland|President]] [[Vance Haar]].


At the XXX Grand Olympic Games he became the first Rhodelander male in history to reach the 100 m sprint final in an international championship event. He finished second in the race, with 10.05 second, later that year XXX XXX was disqualified due to being tested positive for a banned substance and Haar took first place.  
After retiring from modeling and acting. He went to work for Edward Lewis, at [[Edward Lewis Enterprises]]. During this time at Edward Lewis Enterprises, he quikcly rise through their ranks and chaired four of their subsidiaries before leaving to form MWH Partners, LP, a private equity firm, in 2020.


He is a former World Record holder in the 100 metre sprint with 9.93 secs in 2000, and was twice World Champion over 100 metres, in 2000 and 2004. He also won an Olympic gold medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay in 2004.
His 100 m personal best was set in 2002 at 9.90 secs, for which he holds the Rhodelander national records at men's 100 m. Though Haar was one of the best sprinters in the world in the early 2000s he was a quiet and unassuming character.


==Early life==
==Early life==
Haar was born on October 31, 1985, the son of Sharon Haar (née Bryan) and businessman Vance Haar Jr. He is the oldest of three children, Haar has a younger brother, Vance Haar III, and a younger sister, Lauren Haar.


==Athletic career==
He attended the Madison Preparatory School in Livingstone. Haar graduated from the University of Rhodeland, with a certificate in photography, bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in management and a master degrees in organizational leadership. He was also a member of Chi Phi fraternity.
==Career==
===Modeling and acting===
Before graduating from the University of Rhodeland, Harr signed with The Hillary Michaels Modeling Agency. Before his retirement he was one of Hillary Michaels most successful male models. He has been featured on the covers of ''Freshmen'' (as 1 of 2 straight men to be on its cover), ''Outdoorsman'' and ''Runway''. He frequently modeled for [[Matthew Vincent]], as well as for [[Fenmore’s]] and designers [[Donna Martin]] and James Holt.


==Career after retiring from athletics==
Haar began appearing in the [[TVRe]] reality series ''[[The Hillary Michaels Modeling Agency]]'' in June 2013. He left the series in December 2015 to pursue other business endeavors. Haar also appeared on ''[[Splash! (Rhodeland TV series)|Splash!]]'' finishing in fourth place in 2014. In 2016, he was a housemate on ''[[Celebrity Big Brother (Rhodeland TV series)|Celebrity Big Brother]]'', reaching the final and finishing as the runner-up
Following his retirement from athletics in 2008, Haar became involved in with Livingston’s 2016 Grand Olympic Games bid team and as their Marketing Coordinator. After Livingston bid fail he was recruited by the [[TVR]] as the Head of the Grand Olympic Marketing in 2009, taking responsibility for the national marketing and promotion associated with the 2010 XXX Grand Olympic Winter Games and the 2012 Port Amanda Grand Olympic Games. In 2012, he was promoted to General Manager of Sports Marketing for TVR, overseeing the marketing of the network’s entire sports portfolio.


Haar joined his family’s company, [[Cinema Centers|Cinema Centers Inc.]] in 2014 as their Chief Marketing Officer. In 2018 he was appointed President of '''SkyVu Drive-Ins''', a small chain of drive-in theaters owned by the Cinema Centers. In late 2019, he replaced his father, Marvin Troutman as President and CEO of Cinema Centers Inc. Haar also sits on the boards of [[Bloom]] and [[Hollingsworth]].  
Haar starred as a lawyer opposite to Julianna Scott, in the TVRe Christmas film ''The Christmas Inn'' (2016). While reviewers unanimously praised Haar's performance, Trio wrote: "Haar looks like a duck out of water. If the guy wasn’t good to look at with his shirt-off this would have been one long movie.” With 14.53 million viewers, the film won its time period and represented the most-watched TVRe movie in five years.


He is also the owner of the [[Summerdale Heat]], a professional {{wpl|baseball}} team and [[Summerdale Wave]], a professional {{wpl|soccer}} team.
After his role in ''The Christmas Inn'', Haar retired from modeling and acting.
===Noice===
In September 2016, Haar announced that he had secured the winning bid to purchase Livingstone-based clothing brand Noice, which had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in April. Haar’s bid of RD$9.15 million was enough to secure Noice over the bids of two others including capital-investment firm [[Big Flower Capital]]. After it sale to Haar, Noice exited bankruptcy as a privately owned company with 595 stores with no immediate plans to close any locations. With Haar becoming Noice new Chairman and CEO.
===Press & Journal===
In May 2018, the Press & Journal reported that Haar made the minimum bid of RD$5 million to buy its parent company, the Press & Journal, Inc’s assets. The sale closed on June 30.  


==Personal life==
Following the closure, 81 positions where cute, including Publisher Joseph Sukle and Editor-in-chief Jason Maddux. Haar became the new publisher and executive chairman of the newspaper. Haar appointed Brad Vayda, a former Boo! employee, to serve as Editor-in-chief and chief executive officer.  
In 2007, Haar denied rumors to ''Popular'' magazine that he was gay. After his ''Popular'' magazine interview he begin dating [[Princess XXX of XXX]], a great-great granddaughter of XXX XX of XXX, which was a cover for his homosexuality. The two dated from 2007 to 2009. They became engaged on 31 December 2008. Then on 21 June 2009, it was announced that Haar had ended the engagement. He released a statement in which he stated “The problem is with me and not with XXX. With our wedding invitation sent out over the weekend it made me realize that I wasn’t ready for marriage and everything that it entailed. I wished XXX all the happiness in the world and thanked her for all of the great times that we’ve had together.” Princess XX of XXX later revealed that she no idea that Haar was gay and he had ended their relationship as he was leaving to return home to Broken Hill, and had not contacted her since their break-up.


However in 2010 he came out as gay with a letter he wrote to the media saying that he “could no longer in good conscience keep pretending that he was something he wasn’t.” Haar said it was a very tough decision to speak out about his private life and struggles, due to his status as a teen idol and sex symbol, becoming the first Olympic medalist from Rhodeland by winning the 100 metres at the XXX Summer Olympics and winning several international championships, which generated huge media attention that really focused on his looks and not on his accomplishments. The letter also said that he had attempted suicide multiple times before coming out as gay and said: "when someone asked me if that was my cry for help, I said no. You only cry for help if you believe that you can be helped.”
Haar and Vayda described the new direction of the newspaper to their staff in a memo “as we focus and expand our digital footprint, we are shifting the Press & Journal to a three-day print publication schedule. This will help us be a vertically integrated digital media company." In May 2020, 2 years after Haar acquisition of the Press & Journal, he said in a comment to the newspaper that he had "underestimated the difficulty of transitioning an old and traditional newspaper into a digital media company in today’s quickly evolving climate." But he “remains determined to turnaround the Press & Journal into a digital media company


Haar dated businessman [[Nicholas Romero]] in late 2010, before splitting up less than a year later in 2011.
==Personal life==
 
He began dating Ariel Smith in 2014. On December 17, 2016, Haar and Smith where married in the Alexandrian-Prussian Antilles. Their first son, Elijah David, was born on November 21, 2018. Their second son, Nathaniel James, was born on April 19, 2020, two days after his father Vance Haar, Jr. died.
Haar met his future husband [[Alexander Haar]], while they were competing in the [[2009 Livingstone Triathlon]], but the two did not begin dating until late 2011 after Haar relationship with Romero had ended. They were engaged in April 2012 and married on 1 January 2013, when same-sex marriage law reforms that passed in June 2012 came into effect. In honor of his marriage to Haar, he legally changed his last name from Troutman to Haar. Together, they have two children: a son Alexander James “AJ”, who was born to a surrogate mother on 11 October 2014 and a daughter Jennifer Rose, was born to the couple by the same surrogate mother on 1 June 2016.


They currently live in [[Summerdale]], which is an affluent suburb of Livingstone, Rhodeland.
==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
| 2013-2015
| ''[[The Hillary Michaels Modeling Agency]]''
| Himself
| Series regular
|-
| 2014
| ''[[Splash! (Rhodeland TV series)|Splash!]]''
| Himself / Contestant
| 4th place
|-
| rowspan=2|2016
| ''[[Celebrity Big Brother (Rhodeland TV series)|Celebrity Big Brother]]''
| Himself / Houseguest
| 2nd place
|-
| ''The Christmas Inn''
| Ryan Mason
| Television film
|}

Latest revision as of 01:13, 23 May 2022

Marcus Haar
Marcus Haar 2019.png
Haar at the 2019 King's Ball
Born (1985-10-31) October 31, 1985 (age 38)
Livingstone, Rhodeland
Alma materUniversity of Rhodeland
OccupationChairman and CEO (2016-Present)
Media personality and Model (XXX-2016)
Height6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Spouse(s)
Ariel Smith (m. 2016)
Children2
Parent(s)Vance Haar Jr
Sharon Haar

Marcus William “Mark” Haar (born October 31, 1985) is a Rhodelander business executive and entrepreneur who is widely noted as a Edward Lewis protégé. He is currently the Chairman and CEO of MWH Partners, LP. Haar is also known for his previous career as a media personality and model. He is the son of Vance Haar Jr and Sharon Haar (née Bryan), and a grandson of former President Vance Haar.

After retiring from modeling and acting. He went to work for Edward Lewis, at Edward Lewis Enterprises. During this time at Edward Lewis Enterprises, he quikcly rise through their ranks and chaired four of their subsidiaries before leaving to form MWH Partners, LP, a private equity firm, in 2020.


Early life

Haar was born on October 31, 1985, the son of Sharon Haar (née Bryan) and businessman Vance Haar Jr. He is the oldest of three children, Haar has a younger brother, Vance Haar III, and a younger sister, Lauren Haar.

He attended the Madison Preparatory School in Livingstone. Haar graduated from the University of Rhodeland, with a certificate in photography, bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in management and a master degrees in organizational leadership. He was also a member of Chi Phi fraternity.

Career

Modeling and acting

Before graduating from the University of Rhodeland, Harr signed with The Hillary Michaels Modeling Agency. Before his retirement he was one of Hillary Michaels most successful male models. He has been featured on the covers of Freshmen (as 1 of 2 straight men to be on its cover), Outdoorsman and Runway. He frequently modeled for Matthew Vincent, as well as for Fenmore’s and designers Donna Martin and James Holt.

Haar began appearing in the TVRe reality series The Hillary Michaels Modeling Agency in June 2013. He left the series in December 2015 to pursue other business endeavors. Haar also appeared on Splash! finishing in fourth place in 2014. In 2016, he was a housemate on Celebrity Big Brother, reaching the final and finishing as the runner-up

Haar starred as a lawyer opposite to Julianna Scott, in the TVRe Christmas film The Christmas Inn (2016). While reviewers unanimously praised Haar's performance, Trio wrote: "Haar looks like a duck out of water. If the guy wasn’t good to look at with his shirt-off this would have been one long movie.” With 14.53 million viewers, the film won its time period and represented the most-watched TVRe movie in five years.

After his role in The Christmas Inn, Haar retired from modeling and acting.

Noice

In September 2016, Haar announced that he had secured the winning bid to purchase Livingstone-based clothing brand Noice, which had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in April. Haar’s bid of RD$9.15 million was enough to secure Noice over the bids of two others including capital-investment firm Big Flower Capital. After it sale to Haar, Noice exited bankruptcy as a privately owned company with 595 stores with no immediate plans to close any locations. With Haar becoming Noice new Chairman and CEO.

Press & Journal

In May 2018, the Press & Journal reported that Haar made the minimum bid of RD$5 million to buy its parent company, the Press & Journal, Inc’s assets. The sale closed on June 30.

Following the closure, 81 positions where cute, including Publisher Joseph Sukle and Editor-in-chief Jason Maddux. Haar became the new publisher and executive chairman of the newspaper. Haar appointed Brad Vayda, a former Boo! employee, to serve as Editor-in-chief and chief executive officer.

Haar and Vayda described the new direction of the newspaper to their staff in a memo “as we focus and expand our digital footprint, we are shifting the Press & Journal to a three-day print publication schedule. This will help us be a vertically integrated digital media company." In May 2020, 2 years after Haar acquisition of the Press & Journal, he said in a comment to the newspaper that he had "underestimated the difficulty of transitioning an old and traditional newspaper into a digital media company in today’s quickly evolving climate." But he “remains determined to turnaround the Press & Journal into a digital media company

Personal life

He began dating Ariel Smith in 2014. On December 17, 2016, Haar and Smith where married in the Alexandrian-Prussian Antilles. Their first son, Elijah David, was born on November 21, 2018. Their second son, Nathaniel James, was born on April 19, 2020, two days after his father Vance Haar, Jr. died.

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
2013-2015 The Hillary Michaels Modeling Agency Himself Series regular
2014 Splash! Himself / Contestant 4th place
2016 Celebrity Big Brother Himself / Houseguest 2nd place
The Christmas Inn Ryan Mason Television film
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