Gildo Pallanca Pastor

Gildo Pallanca Pastor
Born	(1967-04-01) April 1, 1967 Monaco
Occupation(s)	Entrepreneur, property developer, CEO
Years active	1986–present
Known for	CEO and proprietor of Venturi, Monaco's Consul General to the United States

Gildo Pallanca Pastor (born 1 April 1967) is a prominent Monegasque entrepreneur, property developer, and the CEO and proprietor of Venturi.

Early life

He was born in Monaco to Claude Pallanca and the heiress Hélène Pastor, and has a sister named Sylvia Pastor. His education includes studies in law in France, economics in Italy, and real estate construction at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Career

Between 1986 and 1999, Pastor competed as a racing driver, notably setting an ice speed record in 1995 by reaching 315 km/h with a Bugatti EB1102.

At age 31, he took charge of Monaco’s largest office development project, the Gildo Pastor Center, spanning 90,000 m² and named in honor of his grandfather.

In 2006, he established Radio MC One, which later became Radio Monaco. Since acquiring Venturi in 2001, he has managed the Pastor family’s commercial real estate holdings along with Radio Monaco and La Brasserie de Monaco—the principality’s historic brewery founded in 1905.

After his mother’s assassination in 2014—who was Monaco’s second wealthiest family matriarch with an estimated fortune of $3.7 billion—Pastor inherited substantial assets, elevating him to billionaire status.

He has held the position of Monaco's Consul General to the United States since 2015.

In 2021, alongside Antonio Delfino, Pastor co-founded Venturi Lab based in Switzerland to develop a lunar rover planned for Moon deployment in 2026 via SpaceX. At the 2023 Paris Air Show, Venturi Lab introduced its innovative hyper-deformable lunar wheel technology.

On 3 April 2024, Venturi Astrolab, Inc., a partner within the Venturi Group, was awarded a NASA contract to assist with Artemis lunar terrain vehicle development. The FLEX rover incorporates batteries and wheels designed by Pastor’s teams located in Monaco and Switzerland.

Honours

In 2009, Prince Albert II of Monaco honored him with knighthood in the Order of Saint-Charles.

Personal life

Pastor lives in New York with his wife and their two children.