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ZHANG Daniel
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ZHANG Daniel

ZHANG
Daniel

Chief Executive Officer of Alibaba Group

Organization: Alibaba Group

Date of Birth: 11 January 1972

Age: 52 years old

Zodiac sign: Capricorn

Profession: Chief Executive Officer

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Biography

Daniel Zhang Yong is a Chinese technology executive. He is currently the CEO of Alibaba Group. Before becoming the CEO, Zhang was best known for his roles as CEO of Taobao and president of Tmall (owned by Alibaba). While running Tmall, Zhang created the Singles' Day shopping holiday, an annual Chinese sales event with gross sales three times higher than Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined.

Zhang is included in Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2020.

Early life and education

Zhang was born in Shanghai in 1972. He studied finance at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.

Career

After graduation, he worked for Barings Bank, just before its bankruptcy due to trader Nick Leeson.[6] 1995-2002, he worked for one of the former "Big Five" accounting firms Arthur Andersen which collapsed due to the Enron scandal.[7] He then worked for PwC for two years starting in 2002.

Zhang first joined Taobao (an Alibaba subsidiary) in 2007 as its chief financial officer. The following year he became the chief operating officer of Taobao. In 2011, Zhang was promoted to president of Tmall, a business-to-consumer shopping spinoff from Taobao. It was during his time running Tmall that Zhang launched the Singles' Day shopping event.

In 2013, Zhang was promoted to chief operating officer of Alibaba Group, and eventually succeeded Jonathan Lu as the CEO in 2015. On September 10, 2018, Jack Ma announced that Zhang would also take over as executive chairman, effective in one year on September 10, 2019.

Alibaba employees pick nicknames for themselves when they first join the company. Daniel Zhang's nickname is "Free and Unfettered Person".

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This quarter, Alibaba continued to invest firmly in our three strategic areas of domestic consumption, globalization and cloud computing to lay a solid foundation for our long-term goal of sustainable growth going forward.
19 November 2021

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