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Chris Haughey is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence with Centroamerican Consulting and Capital (3C Group), a diversified conglomerate focused primarily on healthcare, including Central America’s dominant pharmacy retail chain, with 400 pharmacies across 8 countries. Chris’s focus at 3C Group is the creation of new businesses, including the founding of one of Honduras’s first private cities. Prior to joining 3C, Chris founded Tegu, an award-winning toy design and manufacturing company created to bring employment and prosperity to Honduras. From 2007 to 2018, Chris was Tegu’s co-CEO, COO and Chief Innovation Officer and led the Company's manufacturing operation in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. He is the primary inventor listed on Tegu’s patents related to magnetic wooden toys. Prior to starting Tegu, Chris was a consultant with The Boston Consulting Group, from 2004 to 2007. He was a missionary working with university students with Campus Crusade for Christ in Mexico City in 2002-2003. Chris is a Praxis Fellow (Christian entrepreneurship network) and an Agora Fellow (Latin American social entrepreneurship network). He serves on the board of directors of Inversiones La Paz, a Honduran family owned business with diverse investments and retail operations. Chris speaks Spanish and German fluently, loves sports and the outdoors and lives in the mountains above Tegucigalpa with his wife Cindy, their sons Corin and Callan and three labradors. He graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. Chris is a Fellow of the fourteenth class of the Central America Leadership Initiative and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
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