This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers visit http://www.djreprints.com. Alibaba Group HoldingExecutive Chairman and co-founder Jack Ma has been a living symbol not only for his mushrooming e-commerce business, but for New China writ large: flamboyant, plain-spoken, enthusiastically at home in a global spotlight. With Ma’s announced retirement, company and country revert to type. CEO Daniel Zhang, who will add the chairman’s title a year from now, is an unruffled, cerebral, finance guy who trained at Arthur Andersen and PwC before joining Alibaba in 2007.