{"id":22864,"date":"2019-09-18T13:10:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T13:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=22864"},"modified":"2019-09-18T18:10:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T18:10:44","slug":"jack-ma-alibaba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/news\/jack-ma-alibaba\/","title":{"rendered":"<Jack Ma Alibaba>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Ma resigns as chairman of Alibaba Group and hands over the reins.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Alibaba Group founder\u00a0Jack Ma has announced he will stepp down as chairman of Alibaba, the world&#8217;s biggest\u00a0e-commerce\u00a0business. Ma announced his retirement\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/alibaba-boss-jack-ma-steps-down\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plans exactly one year ago<\/a>, saying at the time he wanted to spend more time focusing on education.<\/p>\n<p>After 20 years at the front of the $460 billion Alibaba empire,\u00a0China&#8217;s richest man\u00a0said he would take a position in the Alibaba Partnership, a 38-person body with an indirect role in the governance of the group.<\/p>\n<p>In a video posted on Monday, Ma said: \u201cI\u2019m the person always looking forward. I don\u2019t want to look at the things back.\u201d Ma, a former English teacher, has previously said he will turn his attention to philanthropy, focusing on education in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The one thing I can promise everyone is this: Alibaba was never about Jack Ma, but Jack Ma will forever belong to Alibaba,&#8221; Ma said, signing off his letter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/alibaba-founder-jack-ma-steps-down-from-460-billion-empire-2019-9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to Business Insider<\/a>,\u00a0Ma has picked Daniel Zhang, the CEO of Alibaba since 2015, to take over after his departure effective September 10, 2019. He is most likely to face the challenges of the US-China trade war that has been slowing the Chinese e-commerce industry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/business\/management-leadership\/the-certainty-of-globalization\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> to know about the vision CEO Jack Ma has on globalization, technology, the future of work, and the forces shaping the world today.<\/p>\n<h1>Who is Daniel Zhang?<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/2163465\/meet-daniel-zhang-free-and-unfettered-spirit-who-will-succeed-jack-ma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to South China Morning Post<\/a>, Zhang, 46, had previously served as\u00a0chief financial officer at taobao Marketplace, president at\u00a0Tmall\u00a0and as Alibaba\u2019s chief operating officer before succeeding Jonathan Lu Zhaoxi as chief executive.\u00a0He has also worked as chief financial officer at Chinese gaming company Shanda Interactive Entertainment, and was a senior manager at PwC\u2019s audit and business advisory division in Shanghai.Zhang now has his sights set on helping Alibaba further its New Retail strategy and to expand overseas. He studied finance at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.<\/p>\n<p>When the announcement was made that Zhang would become Alibaba\u2019s chief executive,\u00a0Ma said in a statement in 2015: \u201cDaniel [Zhang] is a proven international business leader and innovator with a strong track record of delivering results,\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CGrj96_8xw0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Ma resigns as chairman of Alibaba Group and hands  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":22866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[2525,99,1385,2528,2529,713,2526,272,2527,1345,2530],"class_list":["post-22864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-alibaba-group","tag-ceo","tag-ceo-northam","tag-china-us","tag-daniel-zhang","tag-jack-ma","tag-jack-ma-resigns","tag-leader","tag-richest-man-in-china","tag-trade-war","tag-zhang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22864"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22874,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22864\/revisions\/22874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}