Penny Pritzker Bio, Family, Husband, Age, Net Worth, Obama and Forbes

Penny Pritzker Biography

Penny Pritzker (Full name- Penny Sue Pritzker) is an American billionaire businesswoman, entrepreneur, and civic leader. She was born on May 2, 1959, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Pritzker spent her early career in business working her way up through the Pritzker family business. She was eventually appointed as one of three successors to her uncle, Jay Pritzker. Pritzker is the founder of PSP Capital Partners and Pritzker Realty Group. She also co-founded Artemis Real Estate Partners.

Penny Pritzker Family

Penny Pritzker was born to Sue (née Sandel) and Donald Pritzker in Chicago in 1959. She is a member of the Pritzker family of Chicago, a wealthy and influential business family. Donald Pritzker was one of the co-founders of Hyatt Hotels who moved the family to Atherton, California, where business for the Hyatt Hotels began to grow. Pritzker has two younger brothers, Tony (b. 1961) and J. B. Pritzker (b. 1965). She is also cousin to Gigi Pritzker.

Young Penny would accompany her father to the hotels and check the cleanliness of the ladies restrooms. Don died suddenly in 1972, of a heart attack when Penny was 13 years old. Pritzker’s mother, Sue, began battling depression following Don’s death, requiring Penny to at times care for her mother and her younger brothers.

When she was 16 years of age, Penny Pritzker wrote a letter to her grandfather, and head of the family business empire, A. N. Pritzker, asking why he talked business with the men in the family and not with her. A. N. provided her with a summer course in accounting after finally realizing her interest in business. Pritzker’s mother died after falling out of the passenger side of a tow truck in 1982.

Penny Pritzker Husband

Pritzker is married to her husband Bryan Traubert. The couple got married shortly after they met therefore did not date for long. Traubert is an ophthalmologist. Pritzker and her husband are parents to two children, a daughter, Rose, and a son, Donald Pritzker Traubert.

Penny Pritzker Age

Pritzker was born on May 2, 1959, Chicago, Illinois, to Sue (née Sandel) and Donald Pritzker. She is a former United States Secretary of Commerce, nominated by President Barack Obama. Pritzker is 60 years old as of 2019.

Penny Pritzker Education

Until 1977, Penny Pritzker attended Castilleja School. In 1981, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Harvard College. Pritzker proceeded to earn both a Juris Doctor and a Masters of Business Administration from Stanford University in 1985.

Penny Pritzker Obama

Pritzker had been involved in many Chicago organizations, including the Chicago Board of Education, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and her own foundation, the Pritzker Traubert Family Foundation, before entering government service. She had been a friend of the Obama family since their time in Chicago and was an early supporter of Obama’s presidential candidacy.

Pritzker was nominated as United States Secretary of Commerce by President Barack Obama. She became the 38th person to hold that position after being confirmed by a Senate vote of 97–1.

Penny Pritzker Height

Pritzker is relatively taller than the average woman standing at 5 feet 6 inches. She weighs 54 kg, has light Brown eye color and is of the white ethnicity.

Penny Pritzker Net Worth | Forbes

Pritzker is a member of the Pritzker family. The Pritzker family is one of the wealthiest families in the United States of America, which is engaged in entrepreneurship and philanthropy. Her business acumen showed from a very young age when she used to accompany her dad to the Hyatt hotels and check the cleanliness of the ladies restrooms.

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