| Bruce Halle | |
|---|---|
| Residence | Paradise Valley, Arizona |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Net worth | US $ 3.4 |
Bruce Halle is the founder and Chairman of the Board of Discount Tire.[1][2]
Bruce Halle was born in Springfield, Massachusetts.[1] He graduated from Eastern Michigan University.[1][2] In 1961, he opened a tire store in Ann Arbor, Michigan.[1]
Through the Bruce T. Halle Family Foundation, he has made charitable donations to the Diane Halle Center for Family Justice at Arizona State University and to the Children First Academy, the nation's largest school for homeless children.[1] He has also made donations to the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, the American Liver Foundation, the American Red Cross, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Childhelp, the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, and the Muscular Dystrophy Association.[2] In Arizona, he supports the Arizona Boys and Girls Clubs, the Arizona Opera League, the Phoenix Symphony, the Scottsdale Symphony, the Crisis Nursery, the Arizona Kidney Foundation, Phoenix Children’s Hospital. He was the first to pledge charter membership of the Children's Urban Survival Program in Phoenix.[2] The Bruce T. Halle Library on his alma mater campus is named for him. He has a collection of 400 unique lithographs from the earliest days of tire advertisements.[1][3] The Diane and Bruce Halle Collection is a private collection of 20th- and 21st-century art from Latin America based in Scottsdale, Arizona.[4]
As of September 2011, he is the 376th richest person in the world and the 96th richest in the United States, with an estimated wealth of US$ 3.4 billion.[5] He is married with four children, and he lives in Paradise Valley, Arizona.[1][6]