Hundreds gather to remember Bob Gillam, wealth fund founder who spent millions opposing Pebble mine

Several hundred people attended a funeral service for Bob Gillam on Sunday at the Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage.

Born in Fairbanks and graduating from Anchorage's West High school in 1964, Gillam was a self-made investment manager who established McKinley Capital in Alaska in 1990 and became one of the state's wealthiest residents. He was known in Alaska for his efforts to stop the development of the proposed Pebble copper and gold mine in the Bristol Bay region, contributing millions of dollars toward efforts to stop the mine.

Gillam had a stroke while at his Anchorage home on Tuesday and died on Wednesday at Providence Alaska Medical Center. He was 72.

[Bob Gillam, wealth fund founder, Pebble critic and one of Alaska's richest people, dead at 72]

[Robert Byron Gillam (1946 – 2018): Obituary]