Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr. (born 1952), is a Cuban American cigar maker[1] who resides in Coral Gables, Florida, and the Dominican Republic.

After exhausting his efforts to catch on with Stan Getz and his band, he returned to Miami, and began to work on cigars.

The La Gloria Cubana was popular in the cigar craze of the early 1990s and, in 1999, Swedish Match purchased El Credito from the Perez-Carrillo family.

Prior to joining EPC Cigar Co., his son Ernesto Perez-Carrillo III worked for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and McKinsey & Company in New York City.

His daughter Lissette McPhillips Perez-Carrillo worked for Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.