Michael Zilkha (born 1954) is a British-born entrepreneur, the co-founder of ZE Records.
He was born in 1954, the son of Selim Zilkha, the founder of Mothercare, one of the UK's largest retail chains (and the grandson of Khedouri Zilkha, a Jewish banker) and Diane Bashi.
[4] In 2019, Zilkha inaugurated Ze Books, described as a new small press that will publish "literary mix-tapes from visionary writers, artists, and musicians".
[5] Inaugural authors included Glenn O'Brien, Jonathan Wells and Mary Gaitskill.
He is married to Cornelia "Nina" O'Leary, a descendant of Hugh Roy Cullen, and they have a son.