Daniel Pritzker

Last updated
Daniel Pritzker
Born1959 (age 6364)
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Tufts University (BA)
Northwestern University (JD)
Occupation(s)Heir, musician, film director
SpouseKaren Edensword
Children5
Parent Jay Pritzker (father)
RelativesSee Pritzker family
Family Thomas Pritzker (brother)
John Pritzker (brother)
Jean "Gigi" Pritzker (sister)

Daniel Pritzker (born 1959) [1] is an American billionaire heir, musician, film director, and member of the Pritzker family.

Contents

Early life

Pritzker was born to a Jewish family, the son of Marian (née Friend) and Jay Pritzker. [2] [3] He is the grandson of A. N. Pritzker. He is a 1981 graduate of Tufts University and earned a Juris Doctor from Northwestern University Law School in 1986.

Career

Daniel and his wife Karen are trustees of the Jay Pritzker Foundation, a philanthropic fund that created the Pritzker Challenge at Tufts with gifts of $10 million. The Pritzker Challenge is designed to encourage members of the Tufts community to establish endowed or term scholarships for underprivileged minority students. Pritzker was the founder, guitarist and songwriter for the Chicago band Sonia Dada.

Pritzker is ranked 353 in the 2020 list of "The 400 Richest Americans" by Forbes magazine, with a net worth of $2.4 billion. [4]

He purchased Jerry Garcia's "Wolf" guitar for $790,000 in 2002. In 2017, he donated it to a charity auction, where Brian Halligan placed the winning bid totaling $1.9M. [5] [6]

After many years, he directed a film about jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden which was released to theaters in May 2019. [7] Originally titled Bolden! before being renamed to just Bolden , he funded the project from first draft to theatrical release because he felt the life of Buddy Bolden "was American history and tragedy of mythical proportion. From the outset I saw this as an opportunity to make an allegorical story about the soul of America." [8]

Personal life

Pritzker is married to Karen Edensword and has five children. [2] [9] The couple lives in Kentfield, California.

Filmography

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Buddy Bolden</span> American cornetist and jazz pioneer (1877–1931)

Charles Joseph "Buddy" Bolden was an African American cornetist who was regarded by contemporaries as a key figure in the development of a New Orleans style of ragtime music, or "jass", which later came to be known as jazz.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jerry Garcia</span> American guitarist and singer (1942–1995)

Jerome John Garcia was an American musician best known for being the principal songwriter, lead guitarist, and a vocalist with the rock band Grateful Dead, which he co-founded and which came to prominence during the counterculture of the 1960s. Although he disavowed the role, Garcia was viewed by many as the leader of the band. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 as a member of the Grateful Dead.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bob Weir</span> American musician; member of the Grateful Dead

Robert Hall Weir is an American musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the group disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead, together with other former members of the Grateful Dead. Weir also founded and played in several other bands during and after his career with the Grateful Dead, including Kingfish, the Bob Weir Band, Bobby and the Midnites, Scaring the Children, RatDog, and Furthur, which he co-led with former Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh. In 2015, Weir, along with former Grateful Dead members Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, joined with Grammy-winning singer/guitarist John Mayer, bassist Oteil Burbridge, and keyboardist Jeff Chimenti to form the band Dead & Company. The band remains active.

Robert Alan 'Bob' Pritzker was an American businessman and member of the wealthy Pritzker family.

The Pritzker family is an American family engaged in entrepreneurship and philanthropy, and one of the wealthiest families in the United States. Its fortune arose in the 20th century, particularly through the founding and expansion of the Hyatt hotel corporation.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Liesel Pritzker Simmons</span> American actress, philanthropist

Liesel Pritzker Simmons, stage name Liesel Matthews, is an American heiress and former child actress. She starred as Sara Crewe in A Little Princess, a 1995 film adaptation of the Frances Hodgson Burnett classic, and as Alice Marshall in Air Force One. She is a member of the wealthy Pritzker family. She is now known as a leader in impact investing and founded the Blue Haven Initiative in 2012 to that end.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jay Pritzker</span> Cofounder of Hyatt Hotels Corp

Jay Arthur Pritzker was an American entrepreneur, conglomerate organizer, and member of the Pritzker family.

<i>Warner Bros. Presents Montrose!</i> 1975 studio album by Montrose

Warner Bros. Presents Montrose! is the third studio album by American hard rock band Montrose, released on Warner Bros. Records on 26 September 1975.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Penny Pritzker</span> American businesswoman (born 1959)

Penny Sue Pritzker is an American billionaire businesswoman and civic leader who served as the 38th United States secretary of commerce in the Obama administration from 2013 to 2017. She was confirmed by a Senate vote of 97–1.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tiger (guitar)</span> Jerry Garcias main guitar from 1979 to 1989

Tiger was Jerry Garcia's main guitar from 1979 to 1989. It was designed and built by Sonoma County luthier Doug Irwin. The instrument was commissioned by Garcia in 1973 following delivery of Wolf, his first major Irwin-built guitar. Upon commissioning the instrument, Garcia enjoined Irwin to "make it the way he thought was best, and don't hold back."

Nicholas J. Pritzker is an American real estate and venture entrepreneur in San Francisco, California. He served as the Chairman of the board and CEO of the Hyatt Development Corporation. He is a member of the wealthy Pritzker family, who owned chewing-tobacco giant Conwood before selling it to Reynolds American.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">J. B. Pritzker</span> American businessman & politician (born 1965)

Jay Robert "J.B." Pritzker is an American billionaire businessman, philanthropist, and politician serving as the 43rd governor of Illinois since 2019. A member of the wealthy Pritzker family, which owns the worldwide hotel chain Hyatt, Pritzker is based in Chicago and has started several venture capital and investment startups like the Pritzker Group, where he is a managing partner. His estimated personal net worth is $3.6 billion.

<i>Bolden</i> 2019 American film

Bolden is a 2019 American drama film based on the life of cornetist Buddy Bolden (1877–1931). One of the seminal figures in jazz history, Bolden left no surviving recordings, having been committed in 1907 at age 30 to the Louisiana State Insane Asylum, where he spent the rest of his life after a diagnosis of acute alcoholic psychosis.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brian Halligan</span> American businessman

Brian Halligan is an American executive and author. He is the co-founder and executive chairman of HubSpot, a CRM platform for scaling companies based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is also a senior lecturer at MIT. Halligan uses the term "inbound marketing" to describe the type of marketing he advocates.

John A. Pritzker, the grandson of A.N. Pritzker and son of Jay Pritzker, is an American billionaire and investor. He is a member of the Pritzker family.

Karen L. Pritzker is a documentary film producer, investor, and philanthropist. She is a member of the Pritzker family, the granddaughter of A.N. Pritzker and daughter of Robert Pritzker.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jennifer Pritzker</span> American billionaire

Jennifer Natalya Pritzker is an American investor, philanthropist, and member of the Pritzker family. Pritzker retired as a lieutenant colonel from the Illinois Army National Guard (ILARNG) in 2001, and was later made an honorary Illinois colonel. Founder of the Tawani Foundation in 1995, Tawani Enterprises in 1996, and the Pritzker Military Library in 2003, Pritzker has been devoted to civic applications of inherited and accrued wealth, including significant donations to broaden understanding and support for "citizen soldiers."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Adam Pritzker</span> American entrepreneur (born 1984)

Adam Pritzker is an American entrepreneur. He is currently the chairman and CEO of Assembled Brands, a holding company of fashion and lifestyle consumer brands, and was co-founder and chairman of General Assembly, a private school for professional development. In 2018, General Assembly was sold to The Adecco Group for over $400 million.

Guernsey's is an auction house founded by Arlan Ettinger and Barbara Mintz. It is based in New York City.

<i>Daves Picks Volume 31</i> 2019 live album by Grateful Dead

Dave's Picks Volume 31 is a 3-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete concert recorded on December 3, 1979 at the Uptown Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. It also includes three songs performed at the same venue the following night. It was released on July 26, 2019, in a limited edition of 20,000 numbered copies.

References

  1. "Daniel Pritzker". Forbes. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  2. 1 2 Harris, Melissa; Wernau, Julie (18 December 2011). "Fortune's Fate". Chicago Tribune . pp.  1, 2 via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Pritzker family". Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved 20 September 2013.
  4. "Daniel Pritzker". Forbes. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  5. Blistein, Jon (1 June 2017). "Jerry Garcia's Legendary Wolf Guitar Sells for $1.9 Million at Auction". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  6. Rosen, Andy (1 June 2017). "HubSpot's Brian Halligan Buys Jerry Garcia's Guitar for Almost $2 Million". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  7. Tarby, Russ. "Buddy Bolden Movie Hits Theaters in May". Syncopatedtimes.com. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  8. Bebco, Joe. "Director Daniel Pritzker talks about his new movie, "Bolden"". Syncopatedtimes.com. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  9. "Death Notice: Cora Jane Bidwell Barr". Chicago Tribune. 20 April 2008. Genealogist, adventuress and world traveler, Cora is survived by two daughters, Karen Marie Edensword Pritzker, of Marin County, CA, and Diana Lisa Edensword Conway, of Potomac, MD; her former husband, Jon Goodwin Edensword, of Washington, DC; eight grandchildren; four sisters; and innumerable friends