Alibaba Group Holding Limited Leadership

Joseph C. Tsai joined Alibaba in 1999 as a member of the founding team and has served on the board of directors since the company's inception. He was chief financial officer until 2013 and executive vice chairman until September 2023, and currently serves as Chairman; he is a founding member of the Alibaba Partnership and a board member of affiliate Ant Group. Before Alibaba, Tsai was a private equity investor with Sweden's Investor AB (the Wallenberg family) from 1995 to 1999, general counsel of the New York management buyout firm Rosecliff, and a tax-group associate attorney at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. He holds a bachelor's degree in Economics and East Asian Studies from Yale College and a juris doctor from Yale Law School, and is qualified to practice law in New York.

Eddie Yongming Wu has served as Alibaba's Chief Executive Officer and a director since September 2023. One of the company's co-founders and a member of the Alibaba Partnership, he was Alibaba's technology director at its 1999 inception, became chief technology officer of Alipay in December 2004, and later led the Alimama monetization platform before becoming CTO of Taobao and head of Alibaba Group's search, advertising and mobile business. He served as a non-executive director of Hong Kong-listed Alibaba Health Information Technology from 2015 to 2021 and founded the venture capital firm Vision Plus Capital in August 2015. Mr. Wu graduated from the College of Information Engineering of Zhejiang University of Technology in June 1996.

J. Michael Evans has been Alibaba's president since August 2015 and a director since September 2014. He spent two decades at The Goldman Sachs Group, joining in 1993, becoming a partner in 1994, and serving as vice chairman from February 2008 until his retirement in December 2013; he also chaired Goldman's Asia operations from 2004 to 2013 and was global head of Growth Markets. During his Goldman career he held leadership roles including global head of equity capital markets and global co-head of the equities and securities businesses. Mr. Evans is a trustee of the Asia Society and a member of the Advisory Council for the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University, from which he received a bachelor's degree in politics in 1981.

Maggie Wei Wu has been a director of Alibaba since September 2020 and, beginning April 1, 2025, serves as a non-executive director. She joined the company in July 2007 as chief financial officer of Alibaba.com, served as Alibaba Group's chief financial officer from May 2013 to March 2022, and was head of strategic investments from June 2019 to March 2022. She was voted the best CFO in FinanceAsia's poll of Asia's Best Managed Companies in 2010 and named one of the world's 100 most powerful women by Forbes in 2018. Before Alibaba she was an audit partner at KPMG in Beijing; she is a member of the ACCA and holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from Capital University of Economics and Business.

Jerry Yang has been a director of Alibaba since September 2014, having previously served on the board from October 2005 to January 2012. Since March 2012 he has been the founding partner of the venture capital firm AME Cloud Ventures. Mr. Yang co-founded Yahoo! Inc., serving as Chief Yahoo! and a board member from 1995 to 2012 and as chief executive officer from June 2007 to January 2009, and has held independent directorships at Cisco Systems, Lenovo Group and currently Workday Inc. He received bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, where he has served on the board of Trustees since October 2017 and was appointed its Chair in July 2021.

Wan Ling Martello has been a director of Alibaba since September 2015. She is a founding partner of BayPine, a Boston-based private equity firm, a role she has held since February 2020, and has served as a director of Nasdaq-listed Lovesac since November 2025. She was executive vice president and CEO for Nestle SA's Asia, Oceania and sub-Saharan Africa region from May 2015 to December 2018, and Nestle's global chief financial officer from April 2012 to May 2015. Before Nestle she was a senior executive at Walmart Stores from 2005 to 2011, including EVP and COO for Global eCommerce. Ms. Martello holds an MBA from the University of Minnesota and a bachelor's degree in business administration and accountancy from the University of the Philippines.

Weijian Shan has been a director of Alibaba since March 2022. He is the executive chairman and co-founder of PAG, a leading private equity firm in Asia, and was previously a partner of TPG and co-managing partner of TPG Asia (formerly Newbridge Capital) between 1998 and 2010. Earlier he was a managing director of JP Morgan and its chief representative for China from 1993 to 1998, and an assistant professor at the Wharton School from 1987 to 1993. Mr. Shan is a Trustee of the British Museum and has served as an independent director of Wilmar International and iQiyi. He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from the University of San Francisco.

Irene Yun-Lien Lee has been a director of Alibaba since August 2022. She is the executive chairman of Hysan Development Limited and a trustee of the Better Hong Kong Foundation, and has served on the boards of numerous listed and unlisted companies across Hong Kong, Singapore, the UK and Australia. Her prior roles include independent non-executive chairman of Hang Seng Bank, independent non-executive director of HSBC Holdings, and directorships at CLP Holdings and Cathay Pacific Airways; she also had a long career in financial services with senior positions at Citibank in New York, London and Sydney and as global head of corporate finance at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Ms. Lee holds a Bachelor of Arts from Smith College, is a Barrister-at-Law in England and Wales, and received an honorary Doctor of Social Science from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in November 2022.

Albert Kong Ping Ng has been a director of Alibaba since August 2022 and chairman of its Audit Committee since December 2022. He currently serves as an independent non-executive director and audit committee chairman of several public companies, including Ping An Insurance (Group), China International Capital Corporation, and Shui On Land. Mr. Ng worked at Ernst & Young China from April 2007 to June 2020, where he was chairman of EY China and a member of EY's Global Executive board, and previously held senior roles at Arthur Andersen, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Citigroup China. He is a member of the HKICPA, CAANZ, CPA Australia and ACCA, and holds bachelor's and master's degrees in business administration from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Kabir Misra has been a director of Alibaba since September 2020 and was redesignated as an independent director in February 2023. He is currently a managing partner at RPS Ventures, a Los Altos, California venture capital firm investing in emerging technology companies. Before October 2018 he was a managing partner at SoftBank Investment Advisors (which manages the SoftBank Vision Fund) and SoftBank Capital, working with SoftBank from 2006 to 2022 and assisting Masayoshi Son with matters relating to Alibaba since before its IPO. Mr. Misra is also an independent director of PayActiv and Cargomatic, and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Harvard University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Toby Hong Xu has been Alibaba's chief financial officer since April 2022. He joined Alibaba Group in July 2018 and served as deputy chief financial officer from July 2019 to March 2022. Before joining Alibaba, Mr. Xu was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers for 11 years, having joined the firm in 1996. He graduated from Fudan University in Shanghai with a bachelor's degree in Physics in 1996 and is a member of the Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Jane Fang Jiang has served as Alibaba's chief people officer since April 2023 and is a founding member of the Alibaba Partnership. She joined the company in 1999 as a member of its founding team and served as deputy chief people officer from 2017. Over the years she has held a range of senior management roles, at various times leading China TrustPass product planning, business analysis, global operations, website operations and marketing for Alibaba.com, as well as credit system development. She received a bachelor's degree in industry and foreign trade from the Hangzhou Institute of Electrical Engineering.

Sara Siying Yu has been Alibaba's general counsel since April 2020. She joined the 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, and before joining Alibaba she worked in various law firms and government departments. Ms. Yu received a bachelor's degree in law from East China University of Political Science and Law.

Fan Jiang currently serves as chief executive officer of the Alibaba E-commerce Business Group and is a member of the Alibaba Partnership. He served as president of Alibaba International Digital Commerce from January 2022, and previously as president of Taobao, Tmall and Alimama, having been responsible for the Taobao app since joining the company in August 2013. Earlier he founded and served as CEO of Umeng, a mobile app analytics provider that Alibaba acquired, and before founding Umeng in 2010 he worked in product development at Google China. Mr. Jiang received a bachelor's degree in computer science from Fudan University.