Peng Lei, known as Lucy Peng, is a Chinese billionaire businesswoman.
11 Facts About Peng Lei
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Peng Lei is one of the founders of the e-commerce company Alibaba Group.
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Peng Lei earned a degree in business administration in 1994 from Hangzhou Institute of Commerce, which was later renamed as Zhejiang Gongshang University.
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Peng Lei quit teaching shortly after marrying, and with her husband joined Jack Ma in founding Alibaba in September 1999.
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From January 2010 to February 2013, Peng Lei was the CEO of Alipay.
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In March 2013, Peng Lei took over as CEO of Alibaba Small and Micro Financial Services.
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In 2013, Peng Lei's name was frequently floated by the Chinese press as a candidate for Alibaba's next CEO.
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Peng Lei served as chief people officer, the chief human resources officer for Alibaba Group for over 10 years.
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Peng Lei became a billionaire in 2014 based on Alibaba's valuation prior to its record-setting IPO.
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Three years after she began teaching, Peng Lei married Sun Tongyu.
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Peng Lei later divorced him for a short period, but then remarried him.