David Wei

Founding partner and Chairman of Vision Knight Capital, David Wei, has around 20 years of experience in the investment, management and operation in China. Before founding Vision Knight Capital, David was the CEO of Alibaba Limited for five years. Alibaba is a global leading E-commerce company, which David successfully led the listing of on the Hong Kong stock exchange in 2007.

David worked in Kingfisher Plc. from 2000 to 2006, a leading home improvement retailer in Europe and Asia. He was the CFO then CEO of B&Q China, a subsidiary of Kingfisher plc. Prior to that, David was head of investment banking for Orient Securities Co. and then corporate finance manager at Coopers & Lybrand (now part of PricewaterhouseCoopers).

Ranked as one of China’s Best CEOs by Financial Asia magazine in 2010, David was the vice president of China Chain Store & Franchise Association and is a Director of PCCW Limited.

He holds a Bachelor's degree in International Business Management from Shanghai International Studies University, and is a graduate of the Corporate Finance Programmes at London Business School.