Full Name

Alex Chen

Job Title

Managing Director, Alibaba Cloud North America

Company

Alibaba Cloud

Speaker Bio

Alex Chen is Managing Director, North America at Alibaba Cloud, where he leads regional strategy and business operations. Previously, he served as Head of Product for Storage and Compute at Alibaba Cloud, overseeing a portfolio of 70+ products—including Elastic Compute, Container Services, AI Infrastructure, and Block/Object/File Storage—and driving global product strategy, go-to-market, and solution architecture. Before joining Alibaba Cloud, Alex spent 19 years at IBM in leadership roles across storage and M&A, including leading the acquisition of Texas Memory Systems (2012) and the divestiture of System x to Lenovo (2014).