At the age of 36, David Wei has accomplished what most executives hope to achieve in a lifetime
Three words spring to mind when it comes to describing David Wei: ingenious, brilliant and wunderkind.
In the past 15 years, Mr Wei has made his name in China, becoming one of the youngest senior management executives in the country.
Before he turned 30, the Shanghai native had already worked in a string of top jobs spanning managing director to chief financial officer and chief executive.
His move last November to China's largest e-commerce company, Alibaba.com, as president, was yet another landmark achievement on his relatively short but stellar resume.
And if his track record is anything to go by, his ascent in the e-commerce world will only be a question of time, just in the same way he seems to have proved himself in virtually all of his other roles.
In his new position, his focus is on making the online environment a place where buyers and sellers can complete all payments in virtual space, as well as providing online solutions that address the functional requirements of small and medium-sized businesses such as services in legal, finance and human resources.