Forbes

THOMAS PRITZKER

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BILLION  SELF-MADE SCORE: $ SOURCE: HOTELS, INVESTMENT­S AGE: 69 RESIDENCE: CHICAGO PHILANTHRO­PY SCORE: Pritzker is the only one of Hyatt Hotels founder Jay Pritzker’s five children still involved with the original family business, serving as executive chairman since 2004. Last October Hyatt bought the boutique hotel company Two Roads Hospitalit­y from Tom’s brother John (No. 333) for $405 million. He is also on the board of his family’s Pritzker Foundation, which announced a $100 million pledge in May for a new school of molecular engineerin­g at Tom’s alma mater, the University of Chicago.

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