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阿里巴巴合伙人制度（英文版）
Introduction
Since our
founders first gathered in Jack Ma's apartment in
1999, they and our
management have
acted in the spirit of partnership. We view our
culture as fundamental
to our success
and our ability to serve our customers, develop
our employees and deliver
long-term
value to our shareholders. In July 2010, in order
to preserve this spirit of
partnership
and to ensure the sustainability of our
mission, vision
and
values, we
decided
to formalize our partnership as
Lakeside Partners, named after the Lakeside
Gardens
residential community where
Jack Ma and our other founders started our
company. We
refer to the partnership as
the Alibaba Partnership.
We believe
that our partnership approach has helped us better
manage our business, with
the peer
nature of the partnership enabling senior managers
to collaborate and override
bureaucracy
and hierarchy. The Alibaba Partnership currently
has 34 members
comprised of 26 members
of our management, seven members of management of
Ant
Financial Services and one member
of management of Cainiao Network. The number of
partners in Alibaba Partnership is not
fixed and may change from time to time due to the
election of new partners, the
retirement of partners and the departure of
partners for other
reasons.
Our partnership is a dynamic body that
rejuvenates itself through admission of new
partners each year, which we believe
enhances our excellence, innovation and
sustainability. Unlike dual-class
ownership structures that employ a high-vote class
of
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shares to
concentrate control in a few founders, our
approach is designed to embody the
vision of a large group of management
partners. This structure is our solution for
preserving the culture shaped by our
founders while at the same time accounting for the
fact that founders will inevitably
retire from the company.
Consistent
with our partnership approach, all partnership
votes are made on a
one-partner-one-
vote basis.
The partnership is governed
by a partnership agreement and operates under
principles,
policies and procedures
that have evolved with our business and are
further described
below.
Nomination and Election of Partners
The Alibaba Partnership elects new
partners annually after a nomination process
whereby
existing partners propose
candidates to the partnership committee. The
partnership
committee reviews the
nominations and determines whether the nomination
of a
candidate will be proposed to the
entire partnership for election. Election of new
partners
requires the approval of at
least 75% of all of the partners.
To be
eligible for election, a partner candidate must
have demonstrated the following
attributes:
a high standard
of personal character and integrity;
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service with Alibaba Group, our affiliates and/or
certain companies with which
we have a
significant relationship such as Ant Financial
Services for not less than five
years;
a track record of contribution to the
business of Alibaba Group; and
being a
consonant with, our
mission, vision
and
values.
We
believe the criteria and process the Alibaba
Partnership applicable to the election of
new partners, as described above,
promote accountability among the partners as well
as
to our customers, employees and
shareholders. In order to align the interests of
partners
with the interests of our
shareholders, we require that each partner
maintain a meaningful
level of equity
interests in our company during such individual's
tenure as a partner. Since
a partner
nominee must have been our employee or an employee
of one of our related
companies or
affiliates for at least five years, as of the time
he or she becomes a partner,
he or she
will typically already own or have been awarded a
personally meaningful level of
equity
interest in our company through our equity
incentive and share purchase plans.
Duties of Partners
The main
duty of partners in their capacity as partners is
to embody and promote
our
mission, vision
and
values. We
expect partners to be evangelists for
our
mission,
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