Filipino, 36, was elected as director of BPI in April 2025. She is currently a member of the Bank’s Personnel and Compensation Committee. She is also an Executive Director of Ayala Corporation, the oldest conglomerate in Southeast Asia, and concurrently a Senior Vice President of Ayala Land, one of the top three largest listed property developers in Southeast Asia. Ms. Zobel de Ayala currently heads its Leasing and Hospitality Group, overseeing Ayala Malls, Ayala Land Offices, Ayala Land Hospitality, and Ayala Land Leisure Estates.
Ms. Zobel de Ayala is also a Board Director of Ayala Land and a member of its Executive, Risk Oversight, and Sustainability Committees. Additionally, she is a Board Director of Ayala Land's listed REIT subsidiary, AREIT. Currently, she serves as the Chairman and President of Ayalaland Malls, Inc. (formerly: ALI Commercial Center, Inc.); Vice Chairman of ALI Eton Property Development Corporation; Chairman of Ayalaland Offices, Inc., Chairman of Ayalaland Hotels and Resorts Corp., and Director of Fort Bonifacio Development Corporation, Alabang Commercial Corporation. She also serves as Chairman of Chirica Resorts Corporation, Ten Knots Development Corporation, Lio Resort Ventures Inc., Pangulasian Island Resort Corp., Ten Knots Phils., Inc., Regent Horizons Conservation Company, Inc., Swift Aerodrome Services, Inc., and ALI Capital Corp.; President & Director of Station Square East Commercial Corporation; and Director of Cagayan de Oro Gateway Corp., Accendo Commercial Corp., and Cebu District Property Enterprise Inc. Aside from her directorships at the Ayala Land Group, Mariana also serves as a Board Director for several Ayala Group companies, such as Ayala Healthcare Holdings, Inc., A&CO Holdings Corporation, ACX Holdings Corporation, ANKO JV Company, Inc., Ayala Group's ACTIVE Fund, WeAreAyala Business Club, Inc., and BPl's Asset Management and Trust Company.
Ms. Zobel de Ayala was named a board advisor for Asia Partners, a Singapore-based growth equity firm with over USD1 bn in assets under management, focused on enabling the next generation of high-growth technology companies in Southeast Asia. She is also a board director of U-Go, a non-profit organization looking to drive education equality in emerging markets by providing scholarship grants to women in pursuit of a university education.
Ms. Zobel de Ayala previously worked for the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) as a Senior Vice President, leading the development of its marketing and digital platforms for its Consumer Bank. Before this position, she served as the Deputy Head of Ayala Malls and previously worked in project development across Ayala Land. She started working at the Ayala Group as a corporate strategy and business development associate at Ayala Corporation, supporting its portfolio reviews across the conglomerate and business development interests in the healthcare industry.
Ms. Zobel de Ayala began her career at J.P. Morgan in New York. She obtained her BA in Social Studies (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics) from Harvard College and an MBA from INSEAD.
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