Gildo Pallanca Pastor | |
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| Born | 1 April 1967 |
| Nationality | Monegasque |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Occupation(s) | CEO and owner, Venturi |
| Parent(s) | Hélène Pastor and Claude Pallanca |
| Relatives | Michel Pastor (uncle) Victor Pastor (uncle) Philippe Pastor (cousin) |
| Website | gildo |
Gildo Pallanca Pastor (born 1 April 1967) [1] is a Monegasque businessman, real estate developer, and the CEO and owner of Venturi.
Gildo Pallanca Pastor was born in Monaco, the son of Claude Pallanca and the heiress and businesswoman Hélène Pastor. He has a sister, Sylvia Pastor.
He studied law in France, economic sciences in Italy and real estate construction at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge in the United States. [1]
From 1986 to 1999, he was a racing driver, setting an ice speed record in 1995 in a Bugatti EB1102. He reached a top speed of 315 km/h and an average speed of 296 km/h. [2]
In 1998, at the age of 31, he managed the construction of Monaco's largest office building (90,000 m2), the Gildo Pastor Center, named in honour of his grandfather, Gildo Pastor.[ citation needed ]
In 2006, Gildo Pallanca Pastor founded Radio MC One, which later became Radio Monaco. [3]
Gildo Pallanca Pastor purchased Venturi in 2001. [1] He also manages the Pastor family's commercial real estate business, Radio Monaco and La Brasserie de Monaco, the Principality's first brewery, launched in 1905 by Prince Albert 1st. [4] [5]
His mother, "the senior surviving member of what is, in effect, Monaco’s second dynasty after the ruling Grimaldis", was murdered in May 2014. Her son-in-law was convicted of the murder in 2018. [6] As she had a net worth of $3.7 billion and two children, he became a billionaire. [7]
Since 2015 he has been Monaco's Consul General to the United States. [8]
Since 2021, Gildo Pastor has set himself a challenge: taking part in the development of a lunar rover and sending it to the Moon in 2026 thanks to SpaceX. [9] To this end, he co-founded with Antonio Delfino a Swiss-based company: Venturi Lab. In June 2023, at the Paris Air Show, the firm revealed its hyper-deformable lunar wheel. [10]
On 3 April 2024, Venturi Group announces that the American company Venturi Astrolab, Inc. (Astrolab), a strategic partner of Venturi Group, has awarded a NASA contract to support the development of Artemis campaign’s lunar terrain vehicle. Its rover, known as FLEX, is equipped with batteries and wheels developed by Gildo Pastor's teams in Monaco and Switzerland. [11] [12]
In 2009, Prince Albert II of Monaco made him a Knight of the Order of Saint-Charles. [1]
Pastor is married with two children and lives in New York. [1]
Louis Alexandre Chiron was a Monégasque racing driver who competed in rallies, sports car races, and Grands Prix.
Venturi is a Monaco-based automotive manufacturer. Founded in 1984 by French engineers Claude Poiraud and Gérard Godfroy as MVS. Venturi operated for nearly sixteen years, before declaring bankruptcy in 2000. The same year, Monegasque Gildo Pallanca Pastor purchased Venturi, and decided to focus on electric-powered motors.
Voxan Motors is a motorcycle manufacturer founded in Issoire, France in 1995. The brand was particularly known for its 996 cc, 72° V-twin engine. Founded by Jacques Gardette, the project was to build the first French motorcycle company in the global market involving different partners. Alain Chevallier designed the chassis, while Sodemo Moteurs focused on the engine. The first prototype was shown in 1997, and the first production model released in 1999.
The Venturi Atlantique was a mid-engined, fiberglass-bodied French sports car produced by Venturi Automobiles from 1991 to 2000.
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Michel Pastor was an heir, businessman and art collector from Monaco.
Hélène Pastor was a Monegasque businesswoman and heiress. She headed what is seen as Monaco’s ‘second dynasty’, and was the richest woman in the principality. She was assassinated by a gang that included her son-in-law, who was subsequently jailed for life in 2018.
Gildo Pastor was a Monégasque businessman and property developer.
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Victor Pastor was a Monegasque businessman and one of the three heirs of the Monaco construction magnate Gildo Pastor.
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Wojciech Janowski is a Monegasque former businessman, diplomat, and philanthropist. In 2018, he was sentenced to life in prison for ordering the murder of his mother-in-law, Hélène Pastor.
The Bugatti EB 112 is a concept 4-door fastback saloon presented by Bugatti Automobili S.p.A. in 1993. Giorgetto Giugiaro of Italdesign was responsible for designing the car. The EB 112 features a 456 PS V12 engine and permanent four-wheel drive system.
The Artemis program is a Moon exploration program that is led by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and was formally established in 2017 via Space Policy Directive 1. The Artemis program is intended to reestablish a human presence on the Moon for the first time since the Apollo 17 moon mission in 1972. The program's stated long-term goal is to establish a permanent base on the Moon to facilitate human missions to Mars.
Starship HLS is a lunar lander variant of the Starship spacecraft that is slated to transfer astronauts from a lunar orbit to the surface of the Moon and back. It is being designed and built by SpaceX under the Human Landing System contract to NASA as a critical element of NASA's Artemis program to land a crew on the Moon.
The Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) is an unpressurized rover being developed for NASA that astronauts can drive on the Moon while wearing their spacesuits. The development of the LTV is a part of NASA's Artemis Program, which involves returning astronauts to the Moon, specifically the lunar south pole, by 2026, but the LTV will not fly until Artemis V in 2030 at the earliest. The LTV will be the first crewed lunar rover developed by NASA since the Lunar Roving Vehicle used during the Apollo program.
