Wan Ling Martello

Independent Director at Alibaba Group

Wan Ling Martello has been a director since September 2015.

Wan Ling is a founding partner of BayPine, a private equity firm based in Boston, U.S.A., a role she has held since February 2020. She served as the executive vice president and chief executive officer of the Asia, Oceania, and sub-Saharan Africa region for Nestlé SA from May 2015 to December 2018. She was Nestlé’s global chief financial officer from April 2012 to May 2015, and executive vice president from November 2011 to March 2012.

Prior to Nestlé, Wan Ling was a senior executive at Walmart Stores Inc., a global retailer, from 2005 to 2011. Her roles included executive vice president and chief operating officer for Global eCommerce, and senior vice president, chief financial officer and strategy for Walmart International. Before Walmart, she was president, U.S.A. at NCH Marketing Services Inc. She was with the firm from 1998 to 2005. She also worked at Borden Foods Corporation and Kraft Inc. where she held various senior management positions. She is currently a director of Uber Technologies, Inc., a company listed on the NYSE and Stellantis N.V., a company listed on the NYSE the Italian Stock Exchange and Euronext, Paris.

Wan Ling received a master’s degree in business administration (management information systems) from the University of Minnesota and a bachelor’s degree in business administration and accountancy from the University of the Philippines.


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Alibaba Group

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To fulfill their mission “to make it easy to do business anywhere,” Alibaba Group enables businesses to transform the way they market, sell and operate and improve their efficiencies. They provide the technology infrastructure and marketing reach to help merchants, brands,retailers and other businesses to leverage the power of new technology to engage with their users and customers and operate in a more efficient way. They also empower enterprises with their leading cloud infrastructure and services and enhanced work collaboration capabilities to facilitate their digital transformation and to support the growth of their businesses. Their businesses are comprised of China commerce, International commerce, Local consumer services, Cainiao, Cloud, Digital media and entertainment, and Innovation initiatives and others. An ecosystem has developed around their platforms and businesses that consists of consumers, merchants, brands, retailers, third-party service providers, strategic alliance partners and other businesses. Alibaba is China’s — and by some measures, the world’s — biggest online commerce company. Its three main sites — Taobao, Tmall and Alibaba.com — have hundreds of millions of users, and host millions of merchants and businesses. Alibaba handles more business than any other e-commerce company. Taobao is Alibaba's biggest shopping site. It's home to seven million merchants selling everything from tiger-striped leather jackets to origami decorations. It’s free for users, but sellers can pay for ads to stand out from the crowd. They also serve millions of enterprises through their Cloud business, and many of their customers are reputable industry leaders in their respective verticals.


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