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Patrick Ryan is the executive chairperson and founder of Aon Company and has an estimated net worth of $3.1 billion. He served as the CEO and Chairperson of the Chicago 2016 Olympic propose committee.

Following the fruitless 2016 Chicago bid, he established Ryan Specialty Group as holding cooperation intended to provide forte services to insurance agents, brokers, and carriers. ThinkRisk, the first subsidiary of the Ryan Specialty Group started a business in late 2009 to offer underwriting as well as claims administration services for network security, media, advertising, and technology.

Ryan is a top benefactor of the Modern wing addition of the Chicago Art Institute building. In the year 2004, he hosted the then U.S. president George Bush in a political fundraising banquet at his residence in Winnetka, Illinois. In the same year, Ryan hosted another fundraiser with the wife and the daughters of President Bush as special guests. He was among the five co-chairs for the inaugural committee of Barack Obama in 2008. In addition, he is a former chairperson and a Board of Trustee member at the University of Northwestern. He bought about 10% of the Chicago Bears in 1990. Patrick Ryan is also a Sigma Chi organization member.

Earnings & Financial Data

Date

Category

Description

Amount

2019

Earning Turned Donation

Donation of Patrick Ryan to his alma mater, Northwestern, that made the school's new athletics facility, Ryan Fieldhouse, named after him

$200,000,000

2018

Asset

Purchase value of Pat Ryan, the retired chairman of the Aon insurance brokerage giant he founded, and his wife, Shirley's 4,100-square-foot condominium unit on the 62nd floor of the Four Seasons Hotel building on North Michigan Avenue

$4,400,000

2017

Earning Turned Donation

Total donation to Northwestern that includes a reported $8 million to $10 million for a mid-1990s renovation of Dyche Stadium, which was subsequently renamed Ryan Field in 1997

$218,000,000

1989

Asset

Purchase value of Pat Ryan, the retired chairman of the Aon insurance brokerage giant he founded, and his wife, Shirley's condo at the Bloomingdale's building at 900 N. Michigan

$1,900,000

1955

Salary

Salary to build overpasses and shoveling concrete during summer along Interstate 94 and Northwestern

$3,500