Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Thomas Pritzker, chief executive officer of Global Hyatt Corp., talked on July 30 with Bloomberg's John Lippert from Chicago about his cousin, billionaire Penny Pritzker who is Barack Obama's national campaign-finance chairwoman. Pritzker has tapped such wealthy donors as hedge fund manager Kenneth Griffin and Warren Buffett, who was the main attraction at a pair of $28,500-per-person Chicago fundraisers in July. She is also a director at Hyatt, a business founded by her great-grandfather, which owns or operates 735 hotels in 44 countries. (This report is an excerpt. Source: Bloomberg)

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