Son of Joe Ricketts of Ameritrade.
But that was nothing compared with the public relations disaster that followed a New York Times report last year that Tom’s father, the conservative billionaire Joe Ricketts, was considering a $10 million preelection ad campaign linking President Obama to “incendiary comments by his former spiritual adviser.”
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/July-2013/Ricketts-Family/
Okay, I will admit—I think Trump has billionaires overrepresented in his early leadership choices, but the son of a billionaire (charter member of the lucky sperm club) is the last guy I think of as prepared to understand the companies we should be supporting (insofar as we are to have such a basically unnecessary department).