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<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rich-alaskan-donor-gave-250k-trump-epa-reversed/story">https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rich-alaskan-donor-gave-250k-trump-epa-reversed/story</a>
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<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">wealthy activist who has funded efforts to block a proposed mine in Alaska's Bristol Bay donated $250,000 to President <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/alerts/DonaldTrump" id="ap_link_Donald Trump_DonaldTrump" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; color: rgb(93, 144, 206); text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px !important;">Donald Trump</a>'s re-election effort six weeks after the administration abruptly decided to prevent the mine from moving forward.<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The move to block the Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay from moving forward seems to diverge from a trend in policy under the leadership of Environmental Protection Agency chief <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/alerts/TrumpAdministration" id="ap_link_Scott Pruitt_TrumpAdministration" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; color: rgb(93, 144, 206); text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px !important;">Scott Pruitt</a> -- seen as one of President Donald Trump's most productive cabinet members in moving to undo <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/alerts/Environment" id="ap_link_environment_Environment" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; color: rgb(93, 144, 206); text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px !important;">environment</a>al regulations put in place under the Obama administration. During the Trump presidency, the EPA in 2017 had previously allowed the mine to move forward.<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The EPA said the change in course was because the environmental risk was too great and announced on January 26 that the mine would not immediately move forward.<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Robert Gillam made his second and largest donation to Trump Victory Fund just weeks later, donating $250,000 on March 9, <a href="http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/708/201804159108134708/201804159108134708.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; color: rgb(93, 144, 206); text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px !important;">according to FEC filings</a>.<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Gillam has previously spent as much as $2.5 million to block the Pebble Mine from moving forward in Alaska's fertile fishing ground called the Bristol Bay. He has been advocating against the mine since 2005, according to an Alaska state report. He declined to comment for this story.<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Gillam has previously donated to the Republican National Committee, Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Republican campaigns in Alaska.<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He went to Wharton with Trump and met with him at Mar-a-lago<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">....<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://www.adn.com/politics/2016/11/25/alaskan-bob-gillam-wants-to-be-u-s-interior-secretary/<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">alaska millionaire investor Robert B. Gillam is making a serious play for the position of Interior Secretary in president-elect Donald Trump's administration.<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gillam, 70, is a lifelong Alaskan who lives primarily in Anchorage in a home on Campbell Lake, with his wife Mary Lou. He also has a home near Lake Clark National Park and Preserve. In 2015, Forbes Magazine named Gillam the richest person in Alaska, estimating his net worth at $320 million.<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According to his son, Gillam woke on Nov. 9 with a new drive to get involved in politics now that a fellow 1968 Wharton graduate was headed to the White House.<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gillam, who goes by "Bob," hasn't previously worked in government, or in the regulatory circles of Beltway politics. But "if there ever was a time an outsider could do just about anything," it's now, said his son, Robert A. Gillam.<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"I recognized that suddenly it was possible for me to serve in a role that has otherwise been one of career politicians," Gillam wrote in a personal statement detailing his desire to take the top land and energy development role.<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So far, President-elect Trump's Cabinet picks imply that is the case. He chose billionaire school voucher advocate Betsy DeVos as his nominee to be the secretary of education, and billionaire venture capitalist Wilbur Ross as his commerce secretary nominee.<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The list of names floated for the Interior Department chief is long and varied, but Gillam wanted to give it a shot, his son said Friday. Gillam and son were planning to head to Washington, D.C. early Saturday, he said.<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So far, the self-made investment manager has been filling out the necessary background paperwork, researching the job and talking to former secretaries and deputies, Rob Gillam said. "There's a lot of people who are thinking an Alaskan would be great for the job," he said.<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"I believe the Department of the Interior needs a leader with solid business experience who will advocate for a "reasonable and scientific" approach to developing our federal lands and resources. I also believe the Interior Department needs a leader who can be a voice for America's native people, culture and way of life," Gillam wrote in his statement. "I would bring to the job no political desires or economic interests."<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gilliam has also been in touch with Alaska's congressional delegation, the younger Gillam said. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairs the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and will be in charge of Senate vetting of whomever Trump nominates for the secretary slot.<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bob Gillam founded McKinley Capital Management, an Anchorage-based firm that manages more than $7 billion in investments.<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rob Gillam is the only one of the five Gillam children who works for his father, and he has been chief investment officer for 12 years, he said. "Emotionally, it would be difficult" for his father to separate himself from the company to serve in a government position. But "legally, it would be easy for him to step away," he said.<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The situation may feel familiar to the president-elect, who works closely with his children. The connections don't end there: Gillam and Trump were classmates at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. After graduation in 1968, Gillam went to UCLA for a master's degree in business administration, graduating in 1969.<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bob Gillam previously told Alaska Dispatch News he had been in touch with Trump throughout the campaign.<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[Alaskans in Trump's orbit make a short list] <p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gillam's name is somewhat well-known in Alaska, but he is not a public character or a known politician, other than his behind-the-scenes efforts to stop development of the proposed Pebble copper and gold mine in Southwest Alaska.<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gillam contributed millions of dollars towards efforts to stop the mine, including supporting local and statewide ballot measures to make the project more difficult to develop.<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Those efforts landed Gillam in trouble with state campaign regulators who fined his private air service $25,500 in 2011 after it offered cheap flights to two anti-Pebble political candidates, services amounting to illegal campaign contributions. The Alaska Supreme Court upheld the fine in 2015.<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gillam himself was the subject of an earlier complaint as part of a group accused of secretly funneling money into a clean-water ballot measure. They paid $100,000 in a 2010 settlement with the Alaska Public Offices Commission. Gillam argued APOC officials were out to get him.<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gillam has five children: Rob, who works for his company, and four children who do not: Vicki, Clark, Hunter and Roxanne.<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He's a lifelong Alaskan: His parents Byron and Lillian met in Montana and came to Alaska as newlyweds in the summer of 1941, according to a biography provided by Rob Gillam. After serving at the Port of Seward during World War II, the family moved to Fairbanks, where Bob Gillam was born in 1946, the second of three children.<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The family later moved to Juneau and then Anchorage, where Bob Gillam graduated from West High School in 1964. Gillam headed East to plead his college-admissions case in person and was successful — admitted a spot at Wharton, the Ivy League's college's business school.<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According to information provided by his son, Gillam has donated to charities including Bean's Cafe, United Way of Anchorage, Catholic Social Services, Anchorage Museum, University of Anchorage, Alaska Pacific University and his own Gillam Foundation and student scholarsh<p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Robert Gillam is an American investor. He is the founder and chairman of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=McKinley_Capital_Management&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="McKinley Capital Management (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">McKinley Capital Management</a>, an asset management firm.<div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; font-size: 13.3px; display: table; zoom: 1; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background: none; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13.3px; display: inline; line-height: 1.3;">Contents</h2>  [<a role="button" tabindex="0" class="togglelink" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none; cursor: pointer;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gillam#Early_life" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1Early life</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gillam#Career" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">2Career</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gillam#Personal_life" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">3Personal life</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gillam#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">4References</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height">Early life[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Gillam&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Robert Gillam graduated from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wharton_School_of_the_University_of_Pennsylvania" title="Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania</a> in 1968.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gillam#cite_note-forbes2018-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[1]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gillam#cite_note-bloombergmckinley-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[2]</a> He received a master in business administration degree from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCLA_Anderson_School_of_Management" title="UCLA Anderson School of Management" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">UCLA Anderson School of Management</a> in 1969.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gillam#cite_note-forbes2018-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[1]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height">Career[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Gillam&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Career" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Gillam worked for Foster & Marshall, a financial firm, until it was acquired by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Express" title="American Express" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American Express</a> in 1982.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gillam#cite_note-forbes2018-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[1]</a> He worked for Boettcher and Company from 1982 to 1985.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gillam#cite_note-forbes2018-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[1]</a>Gillam is the founder of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=McKinley_Capital_Management&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="McKinley Capital Management (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">McKinley Capital Management</a>, an asset management firm.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gillam#cite_note-forbes2018-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[1]</a> He serves as its chairman.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gillam#cite_note-milkenspeaker-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[3]</a> As of 2015, it had US$7 billion of assets under management.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gillam#cite_note-forbes2018-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[1]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height">Personal life[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Gillam&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Personal life" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Gillam resides in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchorage,_Alaska" title="Anchorage, Alaska" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Anchorage, Alaska</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gillam#cite_note-forbes2018-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[1]</a> He has spent $30 million opposing the proposed Pebble Mine, which would have been close to his Lake Clark fishing lodge.<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height">References[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Gillam&action=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><div class="reflist" style="font-size: 12.6px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); 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