Dear club members ,alumni and students,

A lecture on “Alibaba.com,the unknown story behind”by David Wei, Chief Executive Officer of Alibaba.com is going to be held by Alumni (HRM) Research Association at 19:00 on Dec.06 in school campus.David Wei will tell you a story of how Alibaba.com developed rapidly in 8 years by means of setting up outstanding corporate culture, talent competition system and competitive pay system..

CEIBS Alumni (HRM) Research Association

Starting Time:  19:00 -21:00 on Dec. 06, 2008
Venue:  Classroom 115 of ACIII,Shanghai campus of CEIBS
Fee: Free
Language:      Chinese (no interpretation)
Participants:    Club members, CEIBS Alumni and Students

David Wei,Chief Executive Officer, Alibaba.com
David Wei is the chief executive officer and executive director of Alibaba.com Limited. He joined Alibaba Group in November 2006 as the president of the B2B business division and as an executive vice-president of Alibaba Group.

David was the president, from 2002 to 2006, and chief financial officer, from 2000 to 2002, of B&Q China, a subsidiary of Kingfisher Plc, a leading home improvement retailer in Europe and Asia. Under David's leadership, B&Q China grew to become China's largest home improvement retailer. From 2003 to 2006, he was also the chief representative for Kingfisher's China sourcing office, Kingfisher Asia Ltd.

David served as the managing director and head of Investment Banking for Orient Securities Co. from 1998 to 2000, and as a corporate finance manager at Coopers & Lybrand (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers) from 1995 to 1998. David is a non-executive director of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited and HSBC Bank (China) Company Limited. He also serves on the China Advisory Board of IMI plc, a FTSE 250 company.

David was born in mainland China in 1970. He is a graduate of the Corporate Finance Programme at the London Business School and holds a bachelor's degree in International Business Management from Shanghai International Studies University

Corporate Overview
Alibaba Group is a global e-commerce leader and the largest e-commerce company in China. Since it was founded in 1999, Alibaba Group has grown to include the following core businesses:
Alibaba.com - Alibaba Group's flagship company and the world's leading B2B e-commerce company, serving small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) in China and around the world
Taobao - China's largest consumer e-commerce company, which now incorporates Alimama, China's largest online advertising exchange platform
Alipay - China's leading online payment service
Yahoo! Koubei - Online classified listings for local services and search
Alisoft - Internet-based business management software company targeting SMEs in China

 

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Please RSVP to Ms. May Li of Alumni Relations Office before 12:00 at noon on Dec.03 2008, by email(lmay@ceibs.edu) or telephone(2890 5289).
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