IDC Seminar by Gilmour Space Technologies

17 Apr 2015 4.00pm to 5.00pm SUTD, LT 4, BLDG 2, Level 4, Room 2.404

You are cordially invited to our upcoming IDC Seminar.

ABSTRACT:
Adam Gilmour will share with us his Entrepreneurship model and current plans on creating a space museum and academy in Australia dedicated to the technologies behind human space flight and the exploration of our solar system. It will be Asia's first space camp and astronaut training facility.

ADAM GILMOUR studied a banking and finance degree at Monash University in Melbourne. He started work at Citibank in Sydney as a foreign exchange trader in 1994. In 1996, Adam moved to Singapore with Citibank to trade foreign exchange.
In the next 18 years, Adam worked as an options trader, derivatives structuring head and finally as the Asia Pacific head of foreign exchange and derivatives sales. This was grown to become the single largest revenue business in financial markets in Asia with revenues of over one billion dollars and a 230-person team.
In 2012, Adam founded Gilmour Space Corporation, which is a space tourism business, and Gilmour Space Technologies, which is a space-related technology company. Adam has always been interested in space and ying and has been heavily researching aerospace engineering and rocket design in the last five years.