He was a member of the Pritzker family and served as the president of Hyatt, where he helped grow the hotel chain.
[3] In 1961, after he graduated from law school, he went to work for the family company, the Marmon Group.
[4] His elder brother Jay Pritzker assigned him the task of managing the Hyatt Hotel chain.
In 1967, the Pritzkers bought a newly built hotel in downtown Atlanta out of bankruptcy which had an unusual design consisting of a 21-story atrium lobby with external glass elevators, fountains, and caged tropical birds.
[6] They had three children:[4] Pritzker died in 1972 at age 39 of a heart attack while playing tennis at a Hyatt hotel in Honolulu.