Thomas Pritzker

Thomas J. Pritzker is Executive Chairman of the Board of Hyatt Hotels Corporation and the Marmon Group. He is also Chairman and CEO of The Pritzker Organization, a family merchant bank. He was born and raised in Chicago and holds an MBA and a law degree from the University of Chicago. A scion of one of America's wealthiest families, he manages a vast network of businesses. It is difficult to live in the city of Chicago and not notice the Pritzker name. The Pritzker Pavilion is named after Thomas Pritzker's father, Jay Pritzker, while the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine has borne the Pritzker family name since 1968. In 2006, he oversaw the sale of 60% of the privately-held Marmon Group to Warren Buffet for $4.5 billion. Pritzker is the Chairman of the board of the Art Institute of Chicago and the President of the Pritzker Family Philanthropic Fund. Thomas Pritzker addressed the 1993 Achievement Summit in Glacier Park, Montana about his efforts, at age 42, to expand his family's business empire.