FROM BWS TO THE

MEET the little-known young Australian on Wall Street who is managing hundreds of millions of dollars for billionaires around the world.

Rob Hilmer, 34, has packed plenty into his burgeoning career in the US, having managed to talk his way into trading floor jobs at prestigious New York financial firms such as Royal Bank of Scotland fresh out of the University of Queensland, then helping build a fast-growing tech investment start-up from a living room floor in San Francisco.

After a stint working at prominent US billionaire Philippe Laffont’s hedge fund helping invest $US30bn ($40.4bn) around the world, Mr Hilmer now runs his own