Late exclusive丨 Alibaba's new round of organization department promotion: 9 people were promoted to vice presidents and above

On January 13, Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) released a new round of promotions in the organization department on the intranet, involving all middle and senior managers who have been promoted to the ranks of P10 (senior director), M6 (vice president), M7 (senior vice president), involving a total of 37 people.

Among them, there are only two executives who have been promoted to M7, namely Wan Lin, president of Cainiao, and Xu Hong, deputy CFO of the group.

Wanlin joined Cainiao in June 2014, he built the entire Cainiao domestic warehouse distribution and international logistics network from scratch, and served as the president of Cainiao since January 2017, which currently includes five major business sectors of consumer logistics (station / wrapping / village), domestic supply chain, international logistics, logistics real estate and logistics technology.

Toby previously worked at PwC for 22 years, only three and a half years after joining Alibaba, after joining the first to promote starbucks "special star delivery" business cooperation project, in December 2018 to join the CFO line, 20 months later was appointed as the group's deputy CFO, and successively responsible for the group's financial management and strategic investment business. Xu Hong will take over as CFO of Alibaba Group in the upcoming new fiscal year (April 1, 2022), becoming the third CFO of Alibaba Group after Tsai Chongxin and Wu Wei.

There are seven executives who have been promoted to M6, namely Zhang Kaifu, general manager of AliExpress, Li Bo, the number one of MMC business, Wu Jia, president of the intelligent information business group, Zhan Zhonghui, the number one of lingxi interactive entertainment business, Zheng Bo, head of Alimama's advertising technology business department and head of alliance technology, Wang Guixin, head of AutoNavi's shared taxi business center and big market center, and Yan Qiao, head of group public relations. In addition, Wei Meng, who has just been promoted to the head of Taobao shopping, was also promoted to P10.

Among them, it is worth noting the promotion of Zhang Kaifu, Li Bo and Wang Guixin, all three of whom are responsible for Ali's key business.

In the integration of Taobao and Tmall at the beginning of this year, Zhang Kaifu, the former head of the Taobao industry, was transferred to the general manager of aliExpress's global cross-border business center, reporting to Jiang Fan, the president of the overseas digital business sector. Faced with different cultures and usage habits of the world's markets, aliexpress to build a perfect cross-border network in the world is not easy, but the market space is also very large, overseas business is regarded by Ali as an important growth point for revenue.

Li Bo is responsible for the finance of MBC Business Group, MMC Business Group and CTO (Chief Technology Officer)/CRO (Chief Risk Officer)/CCO (Chief Customer Officer) lines, and Alibaba evaluates its management breadth and ability to design a support system that integrates business and finance.

Alibaba established the mmc business group in March last year to vigorously develop the community group buying business "Tao Cai Cai", and Li Bo is also the number one of the MMC business group. Taocaicai can help Ali acquire new users, and at the end of last year's investor day, more than half of Taocaicai users were buying fresh goods on the Taoshi platform for the first time.

The aggregate taxi business launched by AutoNavi 5 years ago was built by the team led by Wang Guixin, and has now developed into the second largest taxi platform in the field of shared travel. With the taxi business, AutoNavi has the ability to build a system that includes user accounts, payments, risk control, and customer service.

These systems are the basis of a service platform, and in July last year, Alibaba integrated the three businesses based on LBS (Gaode), wine travel (Fliggy) and local life into a life service sector, which was handed over to Yu Yongfu for unified management. Among them, The role of Gaode is an entrance, cut from the map, providing various services.

Ali's fiscal year began on the first day of April, and previously, March and April were Ali's promotion season, but this year's promotion announcement was two months earlier than in previous years.

In March 2020, Jiang Fan, then president of Taobao Tmall, and Wang Lei, then president of a local life service company, were promoted to M7, which was different from the attention and discussion that caused a lot of attention and discussion at that time, Ali's executive promotion this time was quite low-key, and the number of promotions was also less than in previous years. (Guan Yiwen)