John Pritzker
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Hotels, investments
- Industry
- Finance & Investments
- Residence
- San Francisco, California
- Education
- Menlo College (Bachelor of Arts/Science)
- Marital Status
- Married
- Children
- 3
Biography
John Pritzker learned the hotel business at his family's Hyatt Hotel chain; he sold his shares in Hyatt to relatives in 2010.
Pritzker went on to build Commune Hotels and Resorts, a boutique hotel management company, which after a merger in 2016 became Two Roads Hospitality.
In November 2018, Hyatt Hotels purchased Two Roads Hospitality for $408 million.
John's brother Tom Pritzker is the chairman of Hyatt and his sister Gigi Pritzker is a film producer.
A photography buff, he gave $25 million to create the Pritzker Center for Photography at the SFMOMA in San Francisco.
John's father Jay, uncle Robert and grandfather A.N. Pritzker built a diverse fortune that included manufacturing and service group Marmon Holdings.
About
Pritzker, a former Dead Head, took time off between high school and college to be part of the emerging counterculture in San Francisco.
To support himself after high school, Pritzker got a union job pulling cables for cable TV in an apartment complex south of San Francisco.