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Peter Gammell
Peter Gammell is a Scottish/Australian Businessman and industrialist.

Background
Peter Gammell was born in Edinburgh. His father was an investment banker, invited at an early age to join Edinbugh's Ivory & Sime (which was started in the late 1800s with the formation of the British Assets Trust.) Gammell and his brother Bill (now Sir William) attended the exclusive Scottish boarding school Fettes College in Edinburgh.

Gammell's grandfather was the distinguished Lieutenant-General Sir James Andrew Harcourt Gammell, a British army general in World War II. He was in the only Scottish regiment that landed at Anzac Cove in 1915, the Cameron Highlanders and later in the war won the Military Cross.

As head of the Edinburgh-based fund manager Ivory and Sime, Gammell's father Jimmy first met George Bush senior on a visit to Midland, Texas in 1951. The next year, he agreed to help Bush set up his oil company, Zapata Petroleum, staying on the board of the company, which would become Pennzoil, for 30 years.

As a 13-year-old boy, future president George W. Bush enjoyed several weeks one summer on the Gammells' farm in Scotland. Bill also stayed at the Bushes' compound in Kennebunkport, Maine and later invested in George W. Bush's oil company. George W. attended Bill's first wedding in Glasgow in 1983.

Another of Bill's school contemporaries was future British prime minister Tony Blair.

As a friend of both political leaders, the Gammell connection was reported to be one of the ice-breakers between Blair and George W.

Sir William, now 57, played rugby for Scotland and went on to found Cairn Energy in 1980.

Peter Gammell preferred a lower-key lifestyle. After completing a science degree at the University of Edinburgh, Gammell decided to visit Australia.

Business career
A Scottish Chartered Accountant by Profession, Gammell joined one of the companies in the Stokes empire in 1981. However, In 1984 he returned to Scotland, where he helped Bill expand Cairn Energy, leading up to its listing on the London Stock Exchange, but returned to Perth -- and Stokes -- in the late 1980s as head of ACE.

Peter Gammell has become one of Australia's leading and most successful businessmen. He is a director of numerous companies in Australia, USA, UK and China and was recently was appointed Managing Director of Seven Group Holdings which owns or controls interests such as Seven Media Group, the Caterpillar franchises Westrac Australia and Westrac China, Coates Hire and The Western Australian Newspaper group to name a few. Seven Group Holdings has also recently become a significant investor in Agricultural Bank of China Ltd. It is said that Mr Gammell is likely to eventually become chairman of Seven ahead of Kerry Stokes’ sons Ryan, 31, and Bryant, 30.

Last year, he also joined Stokes's son Ryan as a director of James Packer's Consolidated Media after Seven's raid on the group, which controls a 25 per cent stake in Foxtel.

Peter is a former director of a subsidiary of the Bank of Scotland and Scottish Pacific Business Finance Holdings Ltd. Former public company directorships include B Digital Ltd. and R M Williams Holdings Ltd.

Mr Gammell is also the Chairman of Octet Finance.