# Alex Chen

> Alex Chen is a startup investor at Alibaba Cloud (Raleigh). See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Alibaba Cloud](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alibaba-cloud)
- Location: Raleigh, United States
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-chen-33039a13/

Alex Chen is a startup investor at Alibaba Cloud in Raleigh. Alex Chen is the senior director of product management at Alibaba Cloud, responsible for storage products and function compute. Previously, 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 also ledvarious business development efforts for IBM, including the acquisition of Texas Memory System in 2012, and divestiture of System X to Lenovo in 2014. 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.

## About Alibaba Cloud

VC Fund · Hangzhou, China

Alibaba Cloud develops highly scalable cloud computing and data management services. As the cloud computing arm and business unit of Alibaba Group, It provides a comprehensive suite of global cloud computing services to power both our international customers’ online businesses and Alibaba Group’s own e-commerce ecosystem. Alibaba Cloud’sinternational operations are registered and headquartered in Singapore, and the company has international teams stationed in Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, New York, Paris, San Mateo, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo.Its services are available on a pay-as-you-go basis and include data storage, relational databases, big-data processing, Anti-DDoS protection, and content delivery networks (CDN). At the same time Alibaba Cloud is committed to the research and development of large database systems and advanced big data technologies. Our R&D efforts include the advancement of IoT (Internet of Things) technology, virtual reality, smart homes, automotive networking and information systems, and cloud-based mobile-device operating systems.

5 contacts available at Alibaba Cloud.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Chen | Senior Director of Product Management | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-chen-db4e |
| Henry Zhang | Chief Product Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/henry-zhang |
| Kam He | Director of Solution Consultant, Alibaba Cloud North America | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kam-he |
| Qunkai Liu | Country Manager, France, Benelux, South Europe and Israel | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/qunkai-liu |
| Xiaoning Li | Chief Security Architect | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xiaoning-li |

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