Anthony Pritzker is an heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune and Managing Partner of the Pritzker Group.

Early life

He is one of the three children of billionaire Donald Pritzker, founder of the Hyatt hotel chain. He graduated from Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...

 and received an MBA

Master of Business Administration

The Master of Business Administration is a :master's degree in business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines. The MBA designation originated in the United States, emerging from the late 19th century as the country industrialized and companies sought out...

 from the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

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Career

From January 1993 to December 1994, he served as President of the Fenestra Corporation. From 1995 to 1996, he was a Group Executive at the Marmon Group

Marmon Group

Marmon Group is a United States holding company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.Marmon Group owns companies that produce electrical components, industrial components and transportation equipment, and provide services including construction and retail solutions.- History :In 1953 Jay Pritzker and...

 and directed operations at Arzo

Arzo

Arzo was a municipality in the district of Mendrisio in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.It had an area of and a population of 1,126 inhabitants ....

, MD Tech, Micro-Aire, Oshkosh Door, and Fenestra. From 1996 to 1998, he served as the Regional Vice President of Operations in Asia for Getz Bros. & Co.. In 1998, he was appointed by the Marmon Group to oversee Stainless Industrial Companies. From 2000 to 2004, he served as the President of Baker Tanks. He now serves as a Managing Partner of the Pritzker Group, his family business, and he runs New World Opportunity Partners. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Halcyon Ventures, Glenayre, Evercore Partners

Evercore Partners

Evercore Partners is an investment bank located in New York City. Evercore also has an investment management business through which the Company manages private equity and venture capital funds for institutional investors...

, and the Signicast Corporation. From 2004 to 2007, he served as Chairman of the Board of AmSafe Partners.

Philanthropy

He is a member of Advisory Board at the Center for Asia Pacific Policy of the RAND Corporation. He also sits on the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of the Arts

California Institute of the Arts

The California Institute of the Arts, commonly referred to as CalArts, is located in Valencia, in Los Angeles County, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the United States created specifically for students of both the visual and the...

, the Board of Directors of Heal the Bay

Heal the Bay

Heal the Bay is a U.S. environmental advocacy non-profit organization based in Santa Monica, California.Heal the Bay is dedicated to protecting California's Santa Monica Bay, a region of the Pacific coast encompassed by Malibu's Point Dume on the north and the Palos Verdes Peninsula on the south...

, and the Board of Overseers of his alma mater, Dartmouth College. He has received awards from the Friends of Sheba Medical Center

Sheba Medical Center

The Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer , also Tel HaShomer Hospital, is the largest hospital in Israel.-Overview:The hospital was named after Chaim Sheba, the founding director. It was established in 1948 as the country's first military hospital to treat casualties of Israel's War of...

 in Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

, Young Presidents' Organization

Young Presidents' Organization

The Young Presidents’ Organization is a global network of young chief executives. With approximately 18,000 members in more than 100 countries, YPO and its graduate organization, WPO share a founding mission: Better Leaders Through Education and Idea Exchange....

, and the Brandeis-Bardin Institute

Brandeis-Bardin Institute

The Brandeis-Bardin Campus of American Jewish University is a Jewish retreat located in Simi Valley, California, USA. Formerly known as the Brandeis-Bardin Institute, it is used for nondenominational summer programs for children, teens and young adults....

. He has made charitable donations to the UCLA School of Law

UCLA School of Law

The UCLA School of Law is the law school of the University of California, Los Angeles. It has been approved by the American Bar Association since 1950. It joined the Association of American Law Schools in 1952.- History :...

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Personal life

As of September 2011, he is the 736th richest person in the world, and the 159th richest in the United States. He is worth $2.5 billion. He is married with six children and resides in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

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