Globe Telecom Inc., the telecommunications and financial technology arm of the Ayala Corp., said Friday its board member, Jaime Alfonso Antonio Zobel de Ayala, has been appointed to an investment promotion panel of the Department of Trade and Industry.
Globe said the 33-year-old Zobel, who had been a director of the company in November 2002 and reelected to the board in April, was named a private sector representative from the National Capital Region in the DTI’s Inter-Agency Investment Promotion Coordination Committee for a term of three years.
Zobel, a non-executive director, is a member of Globe’s compensation and remuneration committee and board risk oversight and sustainability committee. He is also the chief executive officer of AC Industrials, the industrial technologies arm of the Ayala Group that manages a portfolio of companies in the manufacturing and mobility industries.
He is also the CEO of ACMobility, a platform for mobility solutions including automotive distribution, dealership, after sales services, and electric vehicle infrastructure.
Zobel also sits in the board of ACEN Corp., the renewable energy arm of the Ayala Group; Isuzu Philippines; Ayala Land Logistics Holdings; and BPI Capital Corp.
He is a graduate of Harvard University, with primary concentration in government in 2013 and his Masters of Business Administration from Columbia Business School in New York 2019.