Thomas J. Pritzker

Thomas J. Pritzker was born and raised in Chicago. He holds a B.A. from Claremont Men’s College and an M.B.A. and J.D. from the University of Chicago. He currently resides in Chicago. Mr. Pritzker is chairman and CEO of the Pritzker Organization, a family merchant bank, as well as the principal financial and investment adviser to various Pritzker family business interests. He is also chairman of Hyatt Hotels Corporation and Marmon Group, Inc. He serves on the boards of Royal Caribbean Cruises LTD and TransUnion. He is also a founding member and chairman of the board of Bay City Capital, LLC, a merchant bank specializing in life sciences. Mr. Pritzker has been a member of the board of Hyatt Hotels Corporation and its predecessors since the early 1980s and executive chairman since August 2004. He was appointed president of Hyatt Corporation in 1980 and served as chairman and CEO of the corporation from 1999 to 2004. From 2004 to 2006, he served as CEO and executive chairman. Mr. Pritzker is a director and vice president of the Pritzker Foundation, a charitable foundation; director and president of the Pritzker Family Philanthropic Fund, a charitable organization; and chairman and president of the Hyatt Foundation, the charitable foundation that established the Pritzker Architecture Prize. He is a graduate member of the Business Council, a national organization of CEOs. Outside of business, Mr. Pritzker is chairman of the board of the Art Institute of Chicago and a member of the board of the University of Chicago. He has also organized the Pritzker Neurospsychiatric Disorders Research Consortium, which involves researchers from Stanford University, the University of California at Irvine and Davis, Cornell University, and the University of Michigan. It is a collaborative effort to do research into the genetic basis of psychiatric disorders. Mr. Pritzker is also an honorary professor of history at Sichuan University in China.