Gigi pritzker net worth
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Robert Alan 'Bob' Pritzker (June 30, 1926 – October 27, 2011) was an American businessman and member of the wealthy Pritzker family. Pritzker was born to a Jewish family, the Pritzker family,[1] in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Fanny (née Doppelt) and A.N. Pritzker. He has two brothers: Donald Pritzker and Jay Pritzker.[2] Robert Pritzker received a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1946 and an honorary doctorate in 1984. He taught night courses at IIT and began serving on the Board of Trustees in 1962, and served as a University Regent until the time of his death. He also taught evening classes at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (now the Booth School of Business) in the late 1970s and through the 1980s. His class consisted of cases developed from actual business take-overs he was involved with, and students had to recommend whether or not to purchase the companies under study. Pritzker started The Marmo
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Board of Trustees
Officers
Board Chair
Michael P. Galvin (LAW ’78)
President
Galvin Enterprises, Inc.
President
Raj Echambadi, Ph.D
Vice Chair
Michael J. Graff (CHE ’77)
Chairman & CEO. American Air Liquide Holdings, Inc;
Air Liquide USA, LLC and Air Liquide Canada, Inc.
Vice Chair
Ellen M. Jordan (PSYC ’79, M.B.A. ’81)
Chief Executive Officer
Global Grounds
Vice Chair
Thomas E. Lanctot
Chief Executive Officer
Catholic Investment Services
University Regents
Craig J. Duchossois
Executive Chair Emeritus
Duchossois Capital Management
Ellen M. Jordan (PSYC ’79, M.B.A. ’81)
Chief Executive Officer
Global Grounds
Ralph Wanger
Owner. RW Investments
Alan W. “Bud” Wendorf (ME ’71)
Retired Chairman and CEO. Sargent & Lundy LLC
Trustees
Jimmy A. Akintonde (ARCH ’95)
President and Chief Executive Officer
Ujamaa Construction
Kathleen Brandenburg (M.Des. ’98) Jay Pritzker quietly built a $15 billion empire of more than 200 companies, including Hyatt Hotels Corp., and a network of 1,000 family trusts. But one of the patriarch's final deals before his 1999 death, designed to bind his heirs closer, unleashed a torrent of anger, greed, and betrayal, culminating last fall in a $6 billion lawsuit by his 19-year-old niece, Liesel. The author charts the destruction of a great American fortune. It is a simple moment that stands out most vividly in the memories of Jay Pritzker's friends—a moment during his funeral which did not seem to them remarkable at the time, but which in retrospect was the last time they saw his family united. "It was a very cold day and there was snow," one friend recalls. Because of the weather, many guests had not been able to make it to Chicago that day in January 1999; still, nearly 1,000 mourners had shown up at the Emanuel Congregation to pay their respects, forcing the police to barricade part of North Sheridan Road to make way for the limousines. Chicago's mayor, Richard Daley, had come,
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