Rick has spent the last decade working in the internet industry in China, primarily innovating in social, content, e-commerce, and retail spaces. He has been extremely fortunate to ride the incredible growth of mobile internet, building products and platforms that serve hundreds of millions of users every day. Most recently, he was head of engineering of Tmall New Retail at Alibaba, empowering digital transformation for retail brands online and offline. He also founded Taobao content platform, scaling the platforms and the ecosystem for influencer marketing and monetization across all BUs at Alibaba. He was previously director at Tencent where he led a number of social and data products. Before his venture in China, Rick finished graduate school and worked in Silicon Valley on data mining products and applications.