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Jack Ma Yun

(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2006-03-14 08:32

Age: 42 (1964)
Birthplace: Hangzhou, Zhejiang
Company: Alibaba.com
Head office: Hangzhou
Industry: EC, internet portal

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Alibaba.com (皇冠体育app)Technology, People's Republic of 皇冠体育app

Jack Ma and his team of 18 founders created Alibaba.com in Hangzhou, 皇冠体育app in March of 1999. Since that time, Alibaba.com has grown to become 皇冠体育app's largest e-commerce company.

Alibaba.com is world's largest business-to-business marketplace for global trade and host to 皇冠体育app's leading domestic business-to-business trade community. Its Web properties publish product catalogues from over 100,000 suppliers and have over 1,000,000 registered members from over 200 countries who buy and sell products from all industries and services on its platform. Alibaba's vision is to become the number one destination for buyers and sellers at small-and medium-sized enterprises to find trade opportunities, promote their businesses and conduct transactions online.

In 1995, Ma founded 皇冠体育app Pages, widely regarded to be 皇冠体育app's first Internet-based company. Ma then accepted an invitation from 皇冠体育app's Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (MOFTEC) to head the information department of the 皇冠体育app International Electronic Commerce Center (CIECC). He left MOFTEC in early 1999 to launch Alibaba.com.

Ma has been featured in leading international media and was chosen by the World Economic Forum as a "Young Global Leader." Last year, he was selected by 皇冠体育app Central Television (CCTV) and its viewers as one of the 鈥淭op 10 Business Leaders of the Year.鈥�

Ma graduated from Hangzhou Teacher's Institute in 1988 with a B.A. in English and began his career as an English teacher.

Personal Profile:
Since 1999, Chief Executive Officer, Alibaba.com. Corp.
1997-99, President, Inforshare Div., 皇冠体育app Int'l Electronic Commerce Center, Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, People's Republic of 皇冠体育app. 
1995-97, President of chinapages.com; 
1988-95, Teacher, Hangzhou Inst. of Electronic Industry;
1988, BA in English, Hangzhou Teacher's Inst.