Joe Tsai
Chief Financial Officer and Director, Alibaba Group
Non-executive Director, Alibaba.com

Joe Tsai joined Alibaba Group in 1999 as a member of the Alibaba founding team. He is the chief financial officer and a board member of Alibaba Group. He is also a non-executive director of Alibaba.com Limited, the publicly listed business-to-business subsidiary of Alibaba Group.

As chief financial officer of Alibaba Group, Joe’s responsibilities include the Group’s financial operation, reporting, tax, treasury, legal, corporate finance and strategic investments. He is also a member of the audit and compensation committees of the publicly listed Alibaba.com, as well as chairman of its investment management committee.

From 1995 to 1999, Joe worked in Hong Kong with Investor AB, the main investment vehicle of Sweden's Wallenberg family, where he was responsible for Asian private equity investments as a vice president and senior investment manager. Previously, Joe was vice president and general counsel of Rosecliff, Inc., a management buyout firm based in New York.

Joe is a qualified lawyer in the State of New York and, from 1990 to 1993, was an associate in the Tax Group of Sullivan & Cromwell, a New York-based international law firm.

Joe received his B.A. in Economics and East Asian Studies from Yale University and Juris Doctor from Yale Law School.