John Pritzker

About John Pritzker

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.