Penny Pritzker

Cofounder, Inspired Capital

$4.13B

as of 10/04/24

About Penny Pritzker

Penny Pritzker is an investor and one of 11 billionaire heirs to the Pritzker fortune that stems from Hyatt hotels.

A key fundraiser for Presidents Obama and Biden, Pritzker was the U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 2013 to 2017.

Since re-entering the private sector, Pritzker has joined the boards of Microsoft and enterprise software startup Icertis.

Pritzker is the founder and chairman of PSP Partners, a private investment firm with ventures in real estate, hedge funds and startups.

She also cofounded property investment firm Artemis Real Estate Partners and previously served as chair of credit-reporting firm TransUnion.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Hotels, investments

Residence

Chicago, Illinois

Marital status

Married

Birth date

05/02/59 (age 65)

Number of children

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, Harvard University; Master of Business Administration, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Doctor of Jurisprudence, Stanford University

Self-made

inherited

Penny Pritzker’s fortune is worth

69K

troy ounces of gold

64K

median U.S. household

41K

median U.S. income

0.083%

U.S. credit card volume

0.017%

GDP of the United States

0.012%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

Pritzker was the first U.S. commerce secretary to visit Myanmar.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

NYSE | H-US

Hyatt Hotels

NASDAQ | MSFT-US

Microsoft