Adam Pritzker

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

Adam Nicholas Pritzker
Born (1984-07-17) July 17, 1984
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Alma materColumbia University
OccupationEntrepreneur
Known forCo-Founder, General Assembly and Assembled Brands

Education

Pritzker attended Columbia University and graduated in 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology.[6][7][8] He studied with Jeffrey Sachs at Columbia, and went on to work for him at The Earth Institute.[9]

Career

Pritzker co-founded General Assembly in January 2011 with Jake Schwartz, Brad Hargreaves, and Matt Brimer.[10] Pritzker and his partners started the company as a New York coworking space that offered practical classes on technology, design and entrepreneurship.[2] The 20,000 square foot space was modeled after a college campus, according to Pritzker.[2] He served as the chief creative officer, and helped its expansion to eight other locations globally.[11] He was named to the Inc. (magazine) 30 under 30 list,[12] and the Forbes magazine 30 under 30 list[11] 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.[6][13]

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.[14][15] The new group's mission is to promote a set of national policy priorities it terms "America's Goals 2030", and to do so by funding state-level political candidates who are committed to working toward those goals.[15] Based on the U.N.'s Sustainable Development Goals  – a global list of priorities approved in 2015 by the 193 U.N. members[15] – the organization's policy agenda encompasses seven priorities: good jobs; affordable health care; investing in children; empowering people over special interests; equal opportunity; sustainable infrastructure; and clean air, water, and energy.[14][8]

Personal

Pritzker married Sophie McNally in 2016.[16] He is a fourth-generation member of the Pritzker family, son of John Pritzker and grandson of Jay Pritzker.[9][17] His uncle, Thomas Pritzker, is the executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels Corporation, and his aunt, Gigi Pritzker, is a film producer.

References
  1. Friedman, Vanessa (June 8, 2016). "Can America Build Its Own LVMH?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 7, 2016.
  2. Wortham, Jenna (January 24, 2011). "General Assembly Aims to Gather New York Techies". Bits Blog. Retrieved December 7, 2016.
  3. 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.
  4. "Adecco buys General Assembly in $412.5 million deal to boost growth". Reuters. April 16, 2018. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
  5. 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.
  6. Shontell, Alyson (April 25, 2013). "General Assembly Co-Founder Is Leaving To Start A New Company". Business Insider. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
  7. "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.
  8. 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.
  9. Gelles, David (November 5, 2014). "A Pritzker Sets Out With Ideas of Empire". DealBook. Retrieved May 23, 2020.
  10. Lloyd, Tim (January 12, 2013). "General Assembly aims to match education to market demands". VentureBeat. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
  11. Casserly, Meghan. "Adam Pritzker, 28, Cofounder and Chief Creative Officer, General Assembly - pg.23". Forbes. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
  12. Fenn, Donna (July 2, 2012). "Where Entrepreneurs Teach & Students Learn Skills". Inc.com. Retrieved December 9, 2016.
  13. Hempel, Jessi (October 10, 2013). "The prince of sales". Fortune. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. McNally, Anne (October 2016). "Anne McNally's Social-Circuit Diary: October 2016 and More". Vanity Fair. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
  17. "How the next-gen Pritzkers are spending the family fortune". Crain's Chicago Business. June 29, 2018. Retrieved May 23, 2020.
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