Hong Ding

Hong Ding is the current Head of Design, User Experience at Alibaba. Prior to this, they were the Head of Service Design, IoT at Ottoboni from October 2015 to January 2018. Hong has also worked as a User Centric Designer / Researcher at Samsung Electronics from June 2006 to August 2006 and as a Designer, IDBM program at TeliaSonera from September 2005 to May 2006. From November 2010 to September 2015, they were the Service Design Lead at Citat (formerly known as Sitrus Agency). From September 2007 to November 2010, they were a Designer, Partner at Design Agency Fusion. Hong has also worked as a Designer (future concept) at Muova research from April 2004 to October 2004 and as an Industrial designer at Feiyang design from June 2002 to June 2003.

Hong Ding completed a Master of Arts in Industrial and Strategic Design from Aalto University, a Minor in International Design Business Management also from Aalto University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Industrial Design from Hunan University.

They work with Oleksandr Iskhakov - VP, Technology, Edwin Teoh - Head of Data Center Operations, APAC & Middle East, and George On - Head of Data Center Infrastructure Engineering & Operations, Americas & Europe. Hong Ding reports to Li Cheng, CTO.