Members

Penny Pritzker

Founder and Chairman

PSP Partners

PENNY PRITZKER is the founder and Chairman of PSP Partners and its affiliates, Pritzker Realty Group, PSP Capital and PSP Growth and served as 38th U.S. Secretary of Commerce in the Obama Administration. Ms. Pritzker is an entrepreneur, civic leader, and philanthropist, with more than 30 years of experience in numerous industries.  In addition to her work at PSP Partners, Ms. Pritzker also serves on the boards of Microsoft, Icertis and DEPT. In 2022, Ms. Pritzker was elected as the Senior Fellow of the Harvard Corporation, the main governing board for the University. She is the first woman to hold the position. Ms. Pritzker is also chairman of the board of trustees of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, cofounder and board chair of Chicago-based civic-tech organization P33, chair of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum Advisory Council, the Aspen Strategy Group and the Aspen Economic Strategy Group. She was formerly a member of President Biden’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, the board of the Council on Foreign Relations, the board of trustees of Stanford University, the Harvard University Board of Overseers, was co-chair of the Cyber Readiness Institute and founded Skills for America’s Future. Ms. Pritzker earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Harvard University and a Juris Doctor and Masters of Business Administration from Stanford University. Ms. Pritzker and her husband, Dr. Bryan Traubert, co-founded the Pritzker Traubert Foundation, a private philanthropic foundation that works to foster increased economic opportunity for Chicago’s families. To learn more about the Pritzker Traubert Foundation, visit www.ptfound.org.