Matthew Bassiur — Head of Global Intellectual Property Enforcement and Vice President at Alibaba Group Holding Limited

Mr. Matthew Bassiur has been Head of Global Intellectual Property Enforcement and Vice President at Alibaba Group Holding Limited since January 01, 2016. Mr. Bassiur served as the Vice President and Deputy Chief Security Officer at Pfizer Inc. He oversaw Pfizer's anti-counterfeiting operations, large-scale investigations into criminal activity, physical security and crisis management for North, Central and South America. He came from Pfizer Inc. He served as Senior Director of Americas Region and Counsel for IPR Enforcement at Apple, where his responsibilities included building and overseeing an investigative program into complex thefts, frauds, leaks, threats and cyber-related crimes, as well as developing and implementing Apple's civil, criminal, and administrative anti-counterfeiting program. Mr. Bassiur was a federal prosecutor in the Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), where he prosecuted large-scale, multi-jurisdictional IP crimes and coordinated domestic and international IP enforcement training and outreach. Mr. Bassiur also served as the Intellectual Property Liaison to Industry for his section. Mr. Bassiur specialized in investigations and prosecution of New York's trademark counterfeiting industry and Asian organized crime. From 1998 to 2006, as an assistant district attorney in the Trial Division under Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau. Mr. Bassiur was a United States Fulbright Scholar and, under the Fulbright Specialist Program, taught Intellectual Property law at Renmin University in Beijing, China. He was the recipient of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Award for Distinguished Service as a Federal Government Official for his work in the field of IP investigations, prosecutions, education and outreach. He earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia, School of Law in 1998.