Re-appointed to the Board of Yoma Strategic on 29 January 2021, Mr Fernando Zobel de Ayala is a Non-Independent Non-Executive Director of Yoma Strategic.
Mr. Fernando Zobel de Ayala is the President, Chief Operating Officer and Director of Ayala Corporation, one of the largest business groups in the Philippines. Ayala has maintained dominant positions in various industries in the Philippines, including real estate, banking, telecommunications, water, power, industrial technologies, infrastructure, education, and healthcare. It has a growing international presence primarily in industrial technologies, water, power, and real estate in Southeast Asia, China, the US, and Europe.
Mr. Fernando Zobel de Ayala is part of the seventh generation in the family overseeing Ayala and holds the following positions in publicly listed companies in addition to Ayala Corporation: Chairman of Ayala Land, Inc. and Manila Water Company, Inc.; Director of Bank of the Philippine Islands, Globe Telecom, Inc., and Integrated Micro-Electronics, Inc.; and Independent Director of Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation.
He also serves on the boards of INSEAD and Georgetown University and is a member of the World Presidents’ Organization and the Chief Executives Organization. He chairs the steering committee of Habitat for Humanity International’s Asia Pacific Capital Campaign and co-chairs the TATE Museum Asia Pacific Acquisitions Committee. He also serves on the board of the Asia Society and is a member of the Asia Philanthropy Circle and The Metropolitan Museum International Council.
In the Philippines, he is also a board member of the following select organisations: AC Energy, Inc., Ayala Healthcare Holdings, Inc., Ayala Foundation, Inc., Manila Peninsula, Caritas Manila and Pilipinas Shell Foundation.
Mr. Fernando Zobel de Ayala holds a Bachelor of Liberal Arts Degree from Harvard College and course in International Management from INSEAD France.