Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)
Professor Zeng Ming
As Alibaba Group’s Chief Strategy Officer and Founding Dean of Hupan University, he held a key position as Jack Ma’s chief corporate strategist, architecting transformative initiatives that reshaped China’s digital economy. His operational leadership drove four industry-defining breakthroughs: scaling Taobao into China’s dominant e-commerce platform, evolving Alipay into a global fintech pioneer, establishing Alibaba Cloud as Asia’s leading cloud infrastructure, and building Cainiao into an AI-driven logistics network. These systemic advancements propelled Alibaba’s evolution from an online retailer into a integrated digital ecosystem.