Overview

Gender

female

Trudy Dai joined our company in 1999 as a member of our founding team. Since January 2017, she has been president of wholesale marketplaces responsible for Alibaba.com and 1688.com, our international and China wholesale marketplaces, as well as AliExpress, our international retail marketplace.

Prior to her current position, Trudy was our chief customer officer from June 2014 to January 2017. She served as senior vice president of human resources and administration of Taobao and Alibaba.com as well as our deputy chief people officer and chief people officer from 2009 to 2014. She was general manager of Alibaba.com's international operations from 2007 to 2008. Prior to that, she was vice president of human resources of China Yahoo! and the first general manager of Alibaba.com's Guangzhou branch, in charge of field and telephone sales, marketing and human resources in Guangdong Province. From 2002 to 2005, Trudy served as senior sales director of China TrustPass in Alibaba.com's China marketplace division.

Trudy received a bachelor's degree in engineering from Hangzhou Institute of Electrical Engineering.