Thomas J. Pritzker is Chairman and CEO of Global Hyatt Corporation and Marmon Group, Inc. He is also Chairman and CEO of The Pritzker Organization, a family merchant bank. Pritzker is on the Board of Directors of Royal Caribbean Cruises LTD. and Trans Union, a leading global provider of credit information and tools for credit decision making. He is also a founding member and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bay City Capital, LLC, a merchant bank specializing in life sciences. He is a member of The Business Council, a national organization of CEO’s. Outside of business, Pritzker is Chairman of the Board of the Art Institute of Chicago and a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Chicago. He has also organized the Pritzker Neurospsychiatric Disorders Research Consortium. This Consortium involves researchers from Stanford, UC Irvine, UC Davis, and University of Michigan. It is a collaborative effort to do research into genetic basis of psychiatric disorders. Born and raised in Chicago where he currently resides, he holds a B.A. from Claremont McKenna and a MBA and J.D. degree from the University of Chicago. Pritzker is also an Honorary Professor of History at Sichuan University in China.