Mark Hoplamazian | |
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Born |
Bryn Mawr,
Pennsylvania, U.S. | November 27, 1963
Education | Episcopal Academy |
Alma mater |
Harvard University (BA) University of Chicago (MBA) |
Title | President and CEO, Hyatt Hotels |
Spouse |
Rachel DeYoung Kohler
(
m. 1991) |
Children | 3 |
Relatives | Herbert Kohler Jr. (father-in-law) |
Mark Samuel Hoplamazian [1] (born November 27, 1963) is an Armenian American businessman, who has been the president and CEO of Hyatt Hotels Corporation since December 2006. [2] Through marriage he is a member of the Kohler family.
Hoplamazian was born on November 27, 1963 [3] in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania[ citation needed] to Harry (1924-1977) and Victoria ( née Sarkisian) Hoplamazian (1924-2022). [4] [5]
His father was a landscape gardener and owner of Mayfield Gardens, Inc. in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. [6] He has two brothers and two sisters, and is of Armenian descent. [7]
He was educated at the private Episcopal Academy [8] in Newtown Square, and received his BA in economics from Harvard College, and his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. [9]
Between 1985 and 1987, Hoplamazian worked for First Boston Corporation in New York, as a financial analyst. Since 1987, he has been employed in the Pritzker Organization, where he last was executive president, [10] where he worked under Jay Pritzker and primarily managed their family office. In 1988, he was a summer associate at Boston Consulting Group. He was a vice president of the Hyatt Global Corporation since 2004, and president since 2006.[ citation needed]
On September 28, 1991, he married Rachel DeYoung Kohler (b. 1963), daughter of billionaire businessman Herbert Kohler Jr. (1939–2022). [11] They have three children, Mara, Lena and Leo. [12]
The family resides in the Lincoln Park neighborhood in Chicago.[ citation needed]