Adam Pritzker

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Adam Pritzker
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Born (1984-07-17) July 17, 1984 (age 40)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Education Columbia University (BA)
OccupationBusinessman
Known forCo-founder, General Assembly and Assembled Brands
Spouse
Sophie McNally
​
(m. 2016)​
Family Pritzker family

Adam Pritzker (born July 17, 1984) is an American businessman. 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]

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Education

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

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 was 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

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

Pritzker married Sophie McNally in 2016. [24] He is a member of the Pritzker family, son of John Pritzker, grandson of Jay Pritzker, and great-grandson of Abram Nicholas 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

  1. 1 2 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. 1 2 Friedman, Vanessa (June 8, 2016). "Can America Build Its Own LVMH?" . The New York Times . ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved December 7, 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 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. 1 2 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. 1 2 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. 1 2 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. 1 2 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". Reuters. 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.
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