Leadership

Daniel Zhang has been our chairman since September 2019, our chief executive officer since May 2015 and our director since September 2014. He is a founding member of the Alibaba Partnership. He is also currently a member of Ant Group’s investment committee.

Prior to his current role, Daniel served as our chief operating officer from September 2013 to May 2015. He joined our company in August 2007 as chief financial officer of Taobao Marketplace and served in this position until June 2011. He took on the additional role of general manager for Tmall.com in August 2008, which he performed concurrently until his appointment as president of Tmall.com in June 2011 when Tmall.com became an independent platform.

Prior to joining Alibaba, Daniel served as chief financial officer of Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited, an online game developer and operator then listed on Nasdaq, from September 2005 to August 2007. From 2002 to 2005, he was a senior manager of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Audit and Business Advisory Division in Shanghai.

Daniel is the chairman of Sun Art, a company listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. He also serves on the board of Weibo, a company listed on the Nasdaq. He is a member of the WEF International Business Council, the vice co-chair of the board of Consumer Goods Forum and the co-chair of the China board of the Consumer Goods Forum.

Daniel received a bachelor's degree in finance from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.

Joe Tsai joined Alibaba Group in 1999 as a member of the founding team and has served on our board of directors since our inception. He was chief financial officer until 2013 and is currently our executive vice chairman. Joe is a founding member of Alibaba Partnership, and serves on the boards of directors of Ant Group and Cainiao Smart Logistics Network.

From 1995 to 1999, Joe was a private equity investor with the Asia division of Investor AB, the main investment holding company of Sweden's Wallenberg family. Prior to that, he was general counsel of Rosecliff, Inc., a management buyout firm based in New York. From 1990 to 1993, Joe was an associate attorney in the tax group of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, a New York-based international law firm.

Joe is qualified to practice law in the State of New York. He received his bachelor's degree in Economics and East Asian Studies from Yale College and a juris doctor degree from Yale Law School.

J. Michael Evans has been our president since August 2015 and our director since September 2014.

Mike served as vice chairman of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. from February 2008 until his retirement in December 2013. He served as chairman of Asia operations at Goldman Sachs from 2004 to 2013 and was the global head of Growth Markets at Goldman Sachs from January 2011 to December 2013. He also co-chaired the Business Standards Committee of Goldman Sachs from 2010 to 2013. Mike joined Goldman Sachs in 1993, became a partner of the firm in 1994 and held various leadership positions within the firm's securities business while based in New York and London, including global head of equity capital markets and global co-head of the equities division, and global co-head of the securities business.

Mike is a board member of City Harvest. He is also a trustee of the Asia Society and a member of the Advisory Council for the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University. In August 2014, he joined the board of Barrick Gold Corporation.

Mike received his bachelor's degree in politics from Princeton University in 1981.

Maggie Wu has been our chief financial officer since May 2013 and head of strategic investments since June 2019.

Maggie joined our company in July 2007 as chief financial officer of Alibaba.com. She was voted best CFO in FinanceAsia's annual poll for Asia's Best Managed Companies in 2010. In 2018, she was named one of the world’s 100 most powerful women by Forbes.

Before joining Alibaba, Maggie was an audit partner at KPMG in Beijing.

Maggie is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). She received a bachelor's degree in accounting from Capital University of Economics and Business.

Judy Tong has been our chief people officer since January 2017.

Since joining our company in 2000, Judy has served as director and senior director in various departments in our company, including administration, customer service and human resources. Between 2007 and 2013, she served as vice president and senior vice president in various departments, including construction, real estate and procurement.

Starting in 2013, Judy led the formation of Cainiao Network and served at various times as chief operating officer, president, chief executive officer and non-executive chairwoman, overseeing the operations of the company.

Judy is a graduate of Zhejiang University.

Li Cheng has been our chief technology officer since December 2019.

Prior to joining our company, Li Cheng was the chief technology officer of Ant Group from 2014 to 2019, chief operating officer of Ant Group’s global business group from 2018 to 2019, chief software architect of Alipay from 2007 to 2014 and founding engineer of Alipay from 2005 to 2007.

Prior to joining Alipay in 2005, Li Cheng was a doctorate student in the computer science faculty of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He holds a master’s degree in applied computer studies and a bachelor’s degree in computer software from Shanghai University.

Jeff Zhang has served as president of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence since November 2018.

Jeff was our chief technology officer from April 2016 to December 2019. He was president of China retail marketplaces from May 2015 to December 2015, president of Alibaba Group Middle Office business unit from December 2015 to March 2016, and president of Taobao Marketplace and the wireless business division prior to that. He joined our company in July 2004 and has held various management positions, at different times leading Taobao Marketplace's technology teams, the B2C development team, Alibaba.com's China operations, local services, 1688.com, and Tmall.com.

Jeff studied computer science at Zhejiang University.

Sophie Wu has been our chief customer officer since January 2017.

Prior to her current position, Sophie served as president of Alibaba.com and 1688.com, our international and China wholesale marketplaces. From October 2014 to February 2015, she also led the Rural Taobao team. Before October 2014, she was vice president of Alibaba.com’s supplier service division, responsible for optimizing service to China Gold Supplier members and enhancing supplier quality. In July 2012, she started to head international operations of Alibaba.com and 1688.com. Sophie joined our company in November 2000 and has taken on management roles in several sales divisions, including regional sales, China Gold Supplier sales, and China TrustPass sales.

Before joining Alibaba Group, Sophie was sales and customer manager at a technology development company wholly owned by Zhejiang University.

Sophie holds a bachelor's degree in international trade from Zhejiang University and an EMBA degree from China Europe International Business School.

Sara Yu has been our general counsel since April 2020.

Sara joined our company in April 2005 and became one of the first partners of the Alibaba Partnership. Prior to her current role, she served as deputy general counsel, responsible for domestic legal affairs.

Before joining Alibaba, Sara worked in various law firms and government departments. She received a bachelor’s of law degree from East China University of Political Science and Law.

Jessie Zheng has been our chief risk officer since December 2017, responsible for data and information security across our platforms, and our　chief platform governance officer since December 2015, responsible for the governance of our retail and wholesale marketplaces.

Prior to her current position, Jessie served as our deputy chief financial officer from November 2013 to June 2016, and financial vice president of Alibaba.com from December 2010 to October 2013. Before joining our company, she was an audit partner at KPMG.

Jessie received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Northeastern University in China.

Chris Tung joined our company as chief marketing officer in January 2016. He was also president of Alimama from November 2017 to November 2018.

Prior to his current position, Chris was the chief executive officer of VML China, a marketing agency, from October 2010 to January 2016. Before joining VML, he was at PepsiCo China from October 2004 to October 2010 where he served as vice president of marketing. Prior to that, Chris worked at Proctor & Gamble from 1995 to 1998, Gigamedia from 1998 to 2001 and L’Oréal from 2001 to 2003 in various senior management positions.

Chris is currently a director of Ruhnn Holding Limited, a company listed on Nasdaq.

Chris received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Taiwan University and a master’s degree in industrial engineering from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Trudy Dai joined our company in 1999 as a member of the founding team. Since January 2017, she has served as president of Alibaba’s B2B business, overseeing Alibaba.com, an international wholesale marketplace, 1688.com, a China wholesale marketplace, AliExpress, a global retail marketplace, Alibaba’s LST system, as well as our digital agriculture and rural development businesses. From December 2019, Trudy has also been overseeing Alibaba’s New Retail grocery chain, FRESHIPPO.

Prior to her current position, Trudy was our chief customer officer from June 2014 to January 2017. She also served as senior vice president of human resources and administration of Taobao and Alibaba.com as well as our deputy chief people officer and chief people officer from 2009 to 2014. She was general manager of Alibaba.com from 2007 to 2008. Prior to that, she was vice president of human resources of Yahoo China and the first general manager of Alibaba.com’s Guangzhou branch, in charge of field and telephone sales, marketing and human resources in Guangdong Province. From 2002 to 2005, Trudy served as senior sales director of TrustPass.

Trudy received a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Hangzhou Institute of Electrical Engineering.

Fan Jiang has served as president of Taobao since December 2017, president of Tmall since March 2019 and president of Alimama since December 2019. Prior to his current position, he had been responsible for the Taobao app since joining our company in August 2013.

Previously, Fan Jiang founded and served as chief executive officer of Umeng, a provider of mobile app analytics solutions for developers which Alibaba Group acquired. Before founding Umeng in 2010, he worked in product development at Google China.

Fan Jiang received a bachelor's degree in computer science from Fudan University.

Luyuan Fan has served as president of our Digital Media & Entertainment Group since November 2018. He has been an executive director of Alibaba Pictures since January 2016, and currently serves as the chief executive officer and chairman of Alibaba Pictures.

Luyuan Fan joined Alipay in 2007, where he served in a number of senior management positions, including the president of Alipay and the president of Ant Group’s wealth management business.

Luyuan Fan holds an executive master’s degree in business administration from Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business.