EXECUTIVE PROFILE: MARK HOPLAMAZIAN, HYATT HOTELS PRESIDENT AND CEO
HospitalityNet
July 9 2012
Mark Hoplamazian was a freshly minted MBA graduate when consummate
dealmaker Jay Pritzker hired him to work on new investments and
acquisitions in 1989. Almost immediately, the 25-year-old grandson
of Armenian Christian immigrants found himself in an awkward position
within the tightly knit Jewish family business. “He came in and nobody
could spell or pronounce ‘Hoplamazian,’ so I named him ‘Steinberg,'”
said Tom Pritzker, who has succeeded his late father as head of
The Pritzker Organization, the financial and investment adviser to
family businesses.
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