Alibaba Group makes significant personnel adjustment, appointing new CTO and CPO

(ECNS) -- Alibaba Group has made a significant personnel adjustment of senior executives, appointing new chief technology officer (CTO) and Chief People Officer (CPO), Daniel Zhang Yong, chairman and CEO of Alibaba, announced on Thursday.

Wu Zeming, 42, has taken on the role of Alibaba’s CTO, replacing Cheng Li, and Jiang Fang will succeed Tong Wenhong as the CPO starting from April 1, 2023.

Daniel Zhang Yong is now the acting president of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, while Jeff Zhang Jianfeng has stepped down as cloud business chief.

The data base center of Alibaba Cloud in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region was down due to refrigeration failure on Dec. 18, resulting in some important clients were affected by this malfunction, thus triggering guess about the personnel adjustment.