Kabir Misra

Director at Alibaba Group

Kabir Misra has been a director since September 2020. He is currently managing partner at RPS Ventures, a venture capital firm in Palo Alto, CA.

Prior to October 2018, Kabir was a managing partner at SoftBank Investment Advisors (which manages the SoftBank Vision Fund) and SoftBank Capital. He has worked with SoftBank since 2006 and has assisted Mr. Masayoshi Son with our company, and his duties as one of our directors, since before our IPO. Kabir has also represented SoftBank at various points on the boards of its investee companies, most recently at Flipkart, PayTm, Tokopedia, Coupang, BigCommerce and PayActiv.

Prior to joining SoftBank, Kabir worked as an investment banker in the U.S. and Hong Kong. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Harvard University and a master’s degree in business administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.