Alex Chen is GM of Global Strategic Account, VP, Alibaba Cloud International. Previously he was Head of Product, Elastic Computing and Storage Services of Alibaba Cloud. Prior to that, he spent over 19 years at IBM, where he was the worldwide business executive for IBM Enterprise Storage XIV, IBM File Storage offerings, and IBM Software Defined Storage offerings among other roles. He holds six US patents from his early career as a storage software development engineer, and he worked on enterprise block storage, tape systems, and storage management software development.