From banking to rocket science: the family behind Australia’s space bid
After a two-decade investment banking career, Adam Gilmour is just days away from launching Australia’s first locally made space rocket with the company he runs with his wife and younger brother.
Adam and Michelle Gilmour of Gilmour Space are poised for lift-off. Dan Peled
It was at the end of CitiBank’s management offsite in Miami in 2011 that two of the investment bank’s managing directors decided to use a spare day before flying back to Singapore to visit the Kennedy Space Centre. During the three-hour drive north to the launch site for NASA’s Apollo missions to the moon, Adam Gilmour asked his co-head of corporate sales Lung-Nien Lee what would he do if he had a dream – you know, outside banking.
“I want to be a race car driver,” Lee answered. “What’s yours?”
Tess BennettTechnology reporterTess Bennett is a technology reporter with The Australian Financial Review, based in the Brisbane newsroom. She was previously the work & careers reporter. Connect with Tess on Twitter. Email Tess at tess.bennett@afr.com
