Mariana Beatriz Zobel de Ayala was a 24-year-old equity analyst working on #WallStreet over a decade ago, when she got a call from her father, Jaime Augusto. The chairman of the #Philippines’ oldest conglomerate, Ayala Corp., nudged his eldest daughter to come home. “He hinted at opportunities in the Philippines,” Mariana recalls. There was never any pressure, she hastens to add, with the option of returning to New York left on the table. Her sense of duty won out and she quit her job at JPMorgan: “It was the right thing to do.” After spending 12 years learning the ropes in various roles across the 191-year-old banking-to-property group, Mariana, 36, was appointed this March as a managing director at #Ayala Corp. She’s tasked with sprucing up its vast leasing portfolio of aging malls, office buildings and hotels—a number of which sprung up after Ayala Corp. spun off its expanding real estate division in 1988 and listed Ayala Land three years later. At the link in our bio, read the fu...