Anthony N. Pritzker
Managing Partner, The Pritzker Group
Visionary Award

Tony is a Managing Partner and co-founder of The Pritzker Group. The Pritzker Group is a private investment firm representing Pritzker family interests. The firm's reputation is built on strong management partnerships, integrity and a focus on excellence.

The Pritzker Group partners with management teams in leveraged buyouts, acquisitions and recapitalizations of middle-market companies across a broad range of manufacturing, distribution, and service industry sectors. Focused primarily on control transactions involving mature/high quality companies, The Pritzker Group brings a combination of investment and operating expertise, decades of experience across a wide range of industries and a broad relationship network to optimize the performance of the companies in which it invests. The firm is flexible with respect to investment structure, financing and time horizon, enhancing its ability to focus on long-term value creation and maximization.

Tony has over twenty years leading middle-market manufacturing and distribution companies. From 2004 to 2007 he served as Chairman of AmSafe Partners, the leader in aircraft seating restraints. From 2000 to 2004 he served as President of Baker Tanks, the nation's leading tank and pump equipment rental business. In 1998, he was appointed by the Marmon Group to oversee Stainless Industrial Companies, a portfolio of several industrial manufacturing companies. From 1996-1998 Tony served as the Regional Vice President of operations in Asia for Getz Bros. & Co. Prior to 1996, Tony was a Group Executive at the Marmon Group and directed operations at Arzo, MD Tech, Micro-Aire, Oshkosh Door and Fenestra.

Tony is an active member and leader of the Los Angeles community. He is a trustee of Cal Arts, serves as a Director for Heal The Bay and is a member of the Dartmouth Board of Overseers. For his stewardship, Tony has received honors from Friends of Sheba Medical Center in Israel, Young Presidents’ Organization and the Brandeis Bardin Institute. Tony received his M.B A. from the University of Chicago and his B.A. in Engineering from Dartmouth College.