David Gilmour (businessman)

David Harrison Gilmour was born in Winnipeg on November 5, 1931, and grew up in Toronto. His father was Adam Gilmour, an investment banker, and his mother was Doris Godson Gilmour, an opera singer. At age 16, his father offered him the option between enough cash to start his own company, or a $10 stipend a day to go travelling in Europe on his own. He chose to go travelling, and believed he learned how to become an entrepreneur by observing other people on his travels. == Career ==

Gilmour created his first company, Dansk Design, an importer of Scandinavian furniture and giftware. He then founded TrizecHahn, a real estate firm. In 1996, he co-founded Fiji Water with Peter Munk, after he found an aquifer in Yaqara Valley on Viti Levu. It became the No. 1 brand of imported water, even before Evian. He also founded Wakaya Club & Spa, a luxury resort on Wakaya Island. Prince Felipe of Spain and his wife Letizia, Nicole Kidman and her husband Keith Urban, Bill Gates and his wife Melinda, Steve Jobs, Rupert Murdoch, George Lucas, Michelle Pfeiffer, David E. Kelley, Robert Zemeckis, Paris Hilton, and Tom Cruise have all stayed in the resort. He has also built a village and a school for his Fiji workers. == Personal life ==

His third wife, Jill, is a native of Auckland, New Zealand. Gilmour died from a cardiac arrest in Manhattan on June 11, 2023, at the age of 91. ==Bibliography==