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. 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. In 2006, Gildo Pallanca Pastor founded Radio MC One, which later became Radio Monaco. Gildo Pallanca Pastor purchased
Venturi in 2001. 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. As she had a net worth of $3.7 billion and two children, he became a billionaire. Since 2015 he has been Monaco's
Consul General to the United States. 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. 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. 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. ==Honours==