5. AYALA: $3.3 billion. Jaime Zobel de Ayala chaired his family’s Ayala Group until retiring in 2006 when his son, Jaime II (right), took over. Now, Jaime’s 7 children control more than one-third of the conglomerate. Jaime’s grandfather started with a distillery in Manila, then expanded the business into banking, real estate, hotels, telecoms and education.
6. UY COUPLE: $2.8 billion. The power Filipino couple behind a company that brings high speed fiber communications to homes and offices has joined the Top 10 richest list in the Asian country. Converge ICT Solutions President and CEO Dennis Anthony Uy and his wife Maria Grace Uy, who also acts as chief financial officer, jumped to the No. 6 spot of the Forbes’ rich list for 2021.
