Isabel Noboa Biography Isabel Noboa is the daughter of the late Ecuadorian businessman Luis Noboa Naranjo, founder of the Noboa Corporation, and Isabel Pontón Ávila, who had six children, one of them businessman and politician Álvaro Noboa. Noboa left Ecuador at age twelve to go to study at St. George's School in Clarens, Switzerland. Later he would take distance economics classes with the University of London. After returning to Guayaquil, he married Isidro Romero Carbo at the age of twenty-one and had three children: Isabel María Romero de Campana, Melissa Romero de Zurita and Isidro Romero Noboa. In 1968 he opened a language academy (English and French) in his residence, in 1974 he closed the academy and began his philanthropic work with a foundation in support of adoption. In 1994, after the death of his father Luis Noboa, discrepancies occur between the heirs of this, until they finally reach a settlement agreement in 1997. All this happened whil...