Tom Pritzker was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He holds a BA from Claremont Men’s College and MBA and JD degrees from the University of Chicago. Pritzker is executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels and the Pritzker Organization, which is the family’s historical merchant bank. Over his career, he has been involved in acquiring and building companies in a number of different industries and founding significant start-ups in the fields of container leasing (Triton), biotechnology (Bay City Capital), and healthcare (Reliant Pharmaceuticals and First Health). Outside of business, Pritzker is chairman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C., and a member of the Aspen Strategy Group. He is a member of the executive committee of the board of the University of Chicago. Pritzker is also chairman of the board of the Hyatt Foundation, which sponsors the Pritzker Architecture Prize. In the sciences, he partnered with the president of the University of Chicago to create a school of molecular engineering and organized the Pritzker Neuropsychiatric Disorders Research Consortium, a collaborative research effort into the genetic basis of psychiatric disorders. He is also an honorary professor of history at Sichuan University in China, has an honorary doctorate from Tsinghua University, and for the past 30 years has been leading archeological expeditions in the Western Himalayas. Pritzker is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Penny Pritzker is the US secretary of Commerce in charge of the project to "rebuild" Ukraine. Her brother is Jay is governor of Illinois and her cousin is Thomas. Penny is:
Stanford law graduate
Microsoft Board of Directors
Carnegie Endowment for international peace
Transunion Non Executive Member
Aspen Institute: Skills for Americas Future (SAF), Asvisory Board Chair
Harvard Board of Overseers
President and Board of Fellows of Harvard College, Senior Fellow
The appointment came right after her having donated $100,000,000.
Penny and the Pritzker family sold their controlling interest in MARMON GROUP to BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY in 2008, for $4,500,000,00
The Pritzker family hold close ties to Obama.
The Pritzker’s also carry a very strong relationship with the Clinton family and CGI. Specifically, Tom’s brother J.B, the Governor of Chicago.
JB is the richest politician in the United States, and one may question what his motives are in politics by looking at his families history of investing.
And people wonder why it took so long to unmask Tom Pritzker.
In January of 2018, soon after J.B. Pritzker was named a trustee member in 2017, Duke announced they were creating the Adult Gender Medicine Clinic. They also rapidly expanded their Child and Adolescent Gender Care Clinic
Better Government also states J.B. Pritzker gave $2.5 million to Duke University from one of his trust funds, but the true amount of his giving to Duke is unknown because there are many funds that the family has chosen not to make public. Some that were identified are named after periodic elements, like “Gallium, DGC Germanium, LGC Tin and R.A.G.C. Iridium,” and many of them are based in overseas tax havens, according to Crain’s Chicago Business Magazine.
One may begin to find common trends behind these billionaires and the causes they seem to hold so dear to their hearts.