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Adam Pritzker

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Adam Pritzker
Born (1984-07-17) July 17, 1984 (age 40)
EducationColumbia University (BA)
OccupationEntrepreneur
Known forCo-Founder, General Assembly and Assembled Brands
Spouse
Sophie McNally
(m. 2016)
FamilyPritzker family

Adam Pritzker (born July 17, 1984) is an American entrepreneur. He is the chairman and CEO of Assembled Brands, a holding company of fashion and lifestyle consumer brands,[1][2] and was co-founder and chairman of General Assembly, a private school for professional development.[3][4] In 2018, General Assembly was sold to The Adecco Group for over $400 million.[5][6]

Education

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Pritzker attended San Francisco University High School and Columbia University,[7] graduating in 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology.[8][9][10] He studied with Jeffrey Sachs at Columbia, and went on to work for him at The Earth Institute.[11]

Career

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Pritzker co-founded the General Assembly in January 2011 with Jake Schwartz, Brad Hargreaves, and Matt Brimer.[12] Pritzker and his partners started the company as a New York coworking space that offered practical classes on technology, design and entrepreneurship.[3] The 20,000 square foot space was modeled after a college campus, according to Pritzker.[3] He served as the chief creative officer, and helped its expansion to eight other locations globally.[13] He was named to the Inc. (magazine) 30 under 30 list,[14] and the Forbes magazine 30 under 30 list[13] for his work at General Assembly. He left his day-to-day job at the business in 2013 but remained chairman until its sale to The Adecco Group.[8][15]

In 2013, Pritzker co-founded Assembled Brands. In 2016 he made a co-founding investment in the Khaite fashion brand.[2][16][1][17]

In 2021, he was named a trustee of Columbia University.[18]

Political action

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In October 2017, Pritzker partnered with Jeffrey Sachs, a development economist at Columbia University, and Daniel Squadron, a former New York state senator, to found Future Now. The group's mission was to promote "America's Goals 2030", a set of national policy priorities, by funding state-level political candidates committed to working toward those goals. The organization's policy agenda is based on the U.N.'s Sustainable Development Goals – a global list of priorities approved in 2015 by the 193 U.N. members.[19][20][10]

In addition to Future Now, Pritzker and Squadron co-founded the States Project, an advocacy nonprofit organization to win Democratic governing majorities in state legislatures.[21][22][23]

Personal life

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Pritzker married Sophie McNally in 2016.[24] He is a fourth-generation member of the Pritzker family, son of John Pritzker and grandson of Jay Pritzker.[11][25] His uncle, Thomas Pritzker, is the executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels Corporation, and his aunt, Gigi Pritzker, is a film producer. He and his family live in Beverly Hills and Montecito, California.[26][27]

References

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  1. ^ a b Mau, Dhani (October 15, 2018). "How Adam Pritzker is Building an American Fashion Conglomerate of Brands That Make Sense". Fashionista. Retrieved February 17, 2023.
  2. ^ a b Friedman, Vanessa (June 8, 2016). "Can America Build Its Own LVMH?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 7, 2016.
  3. ^ a b c Wortham, Jenna (January 24, 2011). "General Assembly Aims to Gather New York Techies". Bits Blog. Retrieved December 7, 2016.
  4. ^ Alejandro Cremades (May 26, 2019). "Adam Pritzker On Selling His First Business For $400M And Reinventing How Brands Are Built". Alejandro Cremades. Retrieved November 6, 2019.
  5. ^ "Adecco buys General Assembly in $412.5 million deal to boost growth". Reuters. April 16, 2018. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
  6. ^ Cremades, Alejandro. "He Sold His First Business For More Than $400 Million And Is Now Reinventing How Brands Are Built". Forbes. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
  7. ^ "UHS Journal Fall 2014 NOAR by SFUHSorg". San Francisco University High School. Fall 2014. Retrieved February 6, 2022 – via Issuu.
  8. ^ a b Shontell, Alyson (April 25, 2013). "General Assembly Co-Founder Is Leaving To Start A New Company". Business Insider. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
  9. ^ "Adam Pritzker '08CC, along with Daniel Squadron and Jeffrey Sachs, Have a New Plan to Fix Our Broken Politics". Columbia Entrepreneurship. October 11, 2017. Retrieved May 23, 2020.
  10. ^ a b Squadron, Daniel; Pritzker, Adam; Sachs, Jeffrey D. (October 9, 2017). "An Academic, an Entrepreneur, and a Former Politician's New Plan to Fix Our Broken Politics" (opinion). The Daily Beast. thedailybeast.com. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
  11. ^ a b Gelles, David (November 5, 2014). "A Pritzker Sets Out With Ideas of Empire". DealBook. Retrieved May 23, 2020.
  12. ^ Lloyd, Tim (January 12, 2013). "General Assembly aims to match education to market demands". VentureBeat. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
  13. ^ a b Casserly, Meghan. "Adam Pritzker, 28, Cofounder and Chief Creative Officer, General Assembly". Forbes. p. 23. Archived from the original on December 31, 2012. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
  14. ^ Fenn, Donna (July 2, 2012). "Where Entrepreneurs Teach & Students Learn Skills". Inc.com. Retrieved December 9, 2016.
  15. ^ Hempel, Jessi (October 10, 2013). "The prince of sales". Fortune. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
  16. ^ Pons, Sabrina (November 16, 2022). "Khaite, the Minimalist luxury brand that New Yorkers are snapping up". lefigaro.fr (in French). Retrieved February 17, 2023.
  17. ^ Clark, Evan (March 10, 2023). "Khaite Scores Investment from Stripes". Women's Wear Daily.
  18. ^ "Adam Pritzker | Office of the Secretary of the University". secretary.columbia.edu. Retrieved March 26, 2021.
  19. ^ Wulfhorst, Ellen (October 9, 2017). "New group launched in US to set nation's own long-term goals to fix ills". Thomas Reuters Foundation. reuters.com. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
  20. ^ Cramer, Ruby (October 8, 2017). "New Group Promises Real Money for Local Candidates Who Commit to Sweeping National Progressive Goals". BuzzFeed. buzzfeed.com. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
  21. ^ Corasaniti, Nick (September 23, 2022). "Democratic-Allied Group Pours $60 Million Into State Legislative Races". New York Times.
  22. ^ Doyle, Jena (October 11, 2022). "NDRC Teams up with The States Project to Support State Legislative Races".
  23. ^ Waldron, Travis (November 11, 2022). "Democrats are On the Brink of a Historic State Legislative Election Performance". Huffpost.com.
  24. ^ McNally, Anne (October 2016). "Anne McNally's Social-Circuit Diary: October 2016 and More". Vanity Fair. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
  25. ^ "How the next-gen Pritzkers are spending the family fortune". Crain's Chicago Business. June 29, 2018. Retrieved May 23, 2020.
  26. ^ "Hyatt Hotel Heir Adam Pritkzer Buys Montecito Estate". The Real Deal Los Angeles. April 1, 2021. Retrieved February 6, 2022.
  27. ^ McClain, James (February 20, 2020). "Adam Pritzker Downsizes to $8.5 Million Beverly Hills Villa". Dirt. Retrieved February 6, 2022.