Peter Bond

Bond was raised in Camden, New South Wales. His father was a truck driver and his mother was a teacher. He finished high school in 1981 and became a metallurgist with BHP.[3]

After leaving BHP, Bond began buying quarries, and soon started making $17,000 a month trucking coal. He became a millionaire by age 26.[3] Bond debuted on the Australian BRW rich list in 2008 with a net worth of $352,000,000,[4] made it to number 21 on the Sunday Mail Queensland Top 150 Rich List[5] and peaked as the 10th richest business person in Australia, with a net worth of $572,000,000.[3]

As a metallurgist, Bond always had an interest in mining technology and renewable energy, and in 2005 he took over Linc Energy,[6] signing a memorandum with Syntroleum granting a licence to use the company's proprietary gas-to-liquid technology. This technology was used to build a GTL pilot plant in November 2007 at Linc's Chinchilla facility. The plant was commissioned in August 2008. The first synthetic crude oil was produced in October 2008.[7]

In 2012, in a world-first, Bond flew 4,000 km across Australia in a jet powered by the fuel produced at Linc Energy's gas to liquid plant in Chinchilla.[8] The company a signed memorandum of agreement with BP for its jet fuel and was heralding the ability to produce 250,000 litres of jet fuel a year.

The following year Bond signed a deal with Russian Billionaire Roman Abramovich to explore gas to liquid opportunities in Russia,[9] after the two met in a Brisbane restaurant – a meeting which was even covered by major international news outlets, including Fox News.[10]

After Linc Energy entered voluntary administration in 2016, following a court case which was later dropped,[11] Bond put his energy into the restoration of Dunk Island,[12] before starting renewable energy business, Infinite Power.[13]

Bond has six children with his ex-wife Louise.[14] He has no relation to Australian business person Alan Bond.

Bond appeared on the Australian version of The Secret Millionaire, a television program in which prominent millionaires go undercover in impoverished communities and give away substantial sums of money to help those in need. Bond’s appearance and $300,000 donation were widely praised as being among the most generous of the series.[15] His experience on The Secret Millionaire led him to strike up a friendship with Russell Crowe and launch a television production company called Rough Diamond. Rough Diamond also included a community foundation which received part of the company's profits.[16] Rough Diamond, under Bond's guidance, was best known for producing the documentary series 'Where it all Began' – a series of "Real life, true stories of "the Aussie battlers" who against all odds came out on top".[17]