Jian Wang — Chairman of Technology Steering Committee at Alibaba Group Holding Limited

Mr. Jian Wang has been Chairman of Technology Steering Committee at Alibaba Group Holding Limited since May 2015. Mr. Wang served as Chief Technology Officer of Alibaba Group Holding Limited from August 2012 to May 2015. He joined Alibaba Group as chief architect in September 2008. He has responsibility for the formulation and implementation of Alibaba Group's technology development strategy. He also served as President of Alibaba Cloud Computing since its inception in September 2009 until September 2013. Before joining Alibaba Group, he served as Assistant Managing Director at Microsoft Research Asia, where he had served since 1999. Prior to this, Mr. Wang worked at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China as a professor and as head of the psychology department. He serves on the board of directors of CITIC 21. He is a committee member of the China Computer Federation (CCF), which recognized him in 2008 with an award for outstanding contribution. He was honored by the CCF Young Computer Scientists & Engineers Forum as one of China's 10-year outstanding young IT professionals. He was the Chair of the 2010 CCF Conference and a co-chair of the 2011 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Mr. Wang received a bachelor's degree in psychology and a Ph.D in engineering from Hangzhou University.