Cindy Chow, an eight-year Alibaba veteran who was previously the company’s senior director of international finance, is the Executive Director of the Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund. She has served as the qualified accountant of Alibaba.com since joining the company in 2007. She was responsible for managing the company’s public compliance and instituting Alibaba.com’s financial operations outside of Mainland China. Subsequent to the privatisation of Alibaba.com in 2012, Chow was responsible for the financial operations of all overseas offices of the Alibaba Group.

Prior to joining Alibaba, she served in a number of finance roles at various listed groups in Hong Kong. Chow is a qualified accountant in the US and Hong Kong, and holds an MBA from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.