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Penny S. Pritzker
Penny S. Pritzker, as chairman of Pritzker Realty Group, was instrumental in the development of Hyatt Center.
The Parking Spot, Classic Residence by Hyatt, TransUnion and Pritzker Realty Group comprise a portfolio of four companies directed by Pritzker who also serves on the board of Global Hyatt Corporation. Penny Pritzker was a board member and chair of the Governance Committee of the William Wrigley Jr. Co. from 1994 to 2005, a director of the Marmon Group from 2002 to 2008, and a director of LaSalle Bank Corporation, now Bank of America, from 2004 to 2007.
Besides her business leadership, Penny Pritzker is active in Chicago civic, charitable and education pursuits. Pritzker is a member of the Chicago 2016 Olympic Organizing Committee, sits on several local boards and is a life trustee of the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art. She is very involved in the reform of Chicago's public education system. Pritzker is Vice Chairman of the Chicago Public Education Fund, chairs "Leading to Great Principals", a Blue Ribbon Task Force for Chicago Public Schools and is a founding member of the board of Young Women's Leadership Charter School.
Much of Penny Pritzker's philanthropy is directed to education as well. Through the Pritzker Traubert Family Foundation, Pritzker and her husband, Dr. Bryan Traubert, are funding three programs designed to create long term systemic changes that will benefit Chicago students but also can be extended nationally. One is a pipeline to develop principals for public schools; another, with the National YMCA and Harvard University, is designed to reduce childhood obesity through an after school exercise and nutrition program; and the third and newest is Chicago Run which provides the benefits of running and goal setting to underserved children in grades K-8 in Chicago public schools.
Penny Pritzker currently serves as National Finance Chair for the Barack Obama campaign for president.
Pritzker earned her bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard University and J.D. and M.B.A. degree from Stanford University. She was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1985.
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