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World Business Forum - Jack Ma & China & the Internet

July 4, 2007 on 6:39 pm | In People |

INNOVATION PLUS SCALE: HOW TO PAVE THE WAY TO LEADERSHIP

* Getting ready for the next wave: The growth of e-commerce in China
* The incumbent perspective: Key success factors for western companies entering the Chinese market
* China as a source of web-based innovation
* From entrepreneur to challenger: The next steps in Alibaba.com’s strategy
* Growing both ways: Organic growth and acquisitions
* The quest for positioning in China: Designing products and services truly geared for the market

BIO
Jack Ma is the CEO, Chairman, and founder of Alibaba.com, China’s largest e-commerce company. With a team of 18 employees, he created the company in an apartment in Hangzhou, China, in 1999. Since then, Alibaba has grown to host more than 50 million registered members from more than 200 countries. Alibaba.com is ranked as the #1 “Most Popular [web site] in International Business and Trade” on Alexa.com, a subsidiary of Amazon.com that provides independent website tracking data.

In 1995, Ma founded China Pages, widely regarded to be China’s first Internet-based company. He then accepted an invitation from China’s Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation to head the information department of the China International Electronic Commerce Center, a position he left to create Alibaba.

Ma has been recognized by the World Economic Forum as a “Young Global Leader.” In 2004, he was selected by China Central Television (CCTV) and its viewers as one of the “Top 10 Business Leaders of the Year.” And in 2005, FORTUNE ranked him as one of the “25 Most Powerful Businesspeople in Asia.”