• 　　Jun. 1988, Hang Zhou Teachers College

Mr. Ma Yun is Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Alibaba.com Limited. Mr. Ma is the lead founder and a director of Alibaba Group Holding Limited (“Alibaba Group”), our holding company. He has been Alibaba Group’s chairman and chief executive officer since its inception in 1999. Mr. Ma is responsible for the overall strategy and focus of Alibaba Group and our company. He is also a director of a number of our PRC subsidiaries. Mr. Ma is a pioneer in the Chinese Internet industry, founding China Pages, one of the first Internet-based directories in China, in 1995. From 1998 to 1999, Mr. Ma headed an information technology company established by the China International Electronic Commerce Center, a department of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation. Mr. Ma currently serves on the board of SOFTBANK CORP., a leading digital information company that is publicly traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. As a respected business leader, Mr. Ma was chosen by the World Economic Forum as a “Young Global Leader” in 2001, selected by China Central Television and its viewers as one of the “Top 10 Business Leaders of the Year” in 2004, and selected as one of the “25 Most Powerful Businesspeople in Asia” by Fortune Magazine in 2005. Mr. Ma is also a member of APEC Business Advisory Council, which was established by the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, or APEC, in 1995 as the vehicle for formalizing private sector participation in APEC. Mr. Ma holds a Bachelor’s degree in English from Hangzhou Teacher’s Institute.