Jean (Gigi) Pritzker
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Hotels, investments
- Industry
- Service
- Residence
- Los Angeles, California
- Education
- Stanford University (Bachelor of Arts/Science)
- Marital Status
- Married
- Children
- 3
Assets
- Beyond Meat2,834,000 shares @ --BYND-US
- Hyatt Hotels17,554,000 shares @ --H-US
Biography
One of 13 billionaire heirs to the Hyatt Hotels fortune, Jean "Gigi" Pritzker is a Los Angeles-based movie producer.
In 2015 she founded Madison Wells Media, a media and entertainment company that champions "badass women" and unknown stories.
Films she has produced include "Drive," "Rabbit Hole," "Ender's Game," and the Oscar-nominated "Hell or High Water" and Oscar-winning "The Eyes of Tammy Faye."
Through her Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation, she donates to the arts, education and community-oriented nonprofits.
She was an early investor in Beyond Meat and now owns less than 5% of the company.
About
The name of her company, Madison Wells Media, is named for her great-grandfather who sold newspapers at the corner of Madison Avenue and Wells Street in Chicago.
While she was a student at Stanford University, Pritzker spent a year abroad in Nepal, where she studied folktales among other things.