Enrique Zobel

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Enrique Jacobo Emilio Olgado Zobel (January 7, 1927–May 17, 2004), was a prominent Filipino businessman. The only child of Colonel Jacobo Roxas Zóbel (of German, Spanish, and Mexican descent)^{[citation needed]} and Ángela Olgado, he was a member of the influential Zobel de Ayala family of the Philippines and a first cousin of Jaime Zobel de Ayala.

Zobel was chief executive officer of Ayala Corporation until 1983 and has been credited with spearheading the transformation of Makati City into Metro Manila's financial center while in that position. In 1981, he founded the Makati Business Club, for he felt that the business community should speak out as a single solid voice, not to lobby for its own corporate or sectoral interest, but to support or oppose policies which affected national life. In 1990, he established the Enrique Zobel Foundation, which focuses on social and economic development projects in Calatagan, Batangas.

His vast business empire is now handled by his son, Iñigo Zobel.