who is jack ma
Chairman and Chief Executive of Alibaba Group Jack Ma speaks at a news conference in Beijing, in this file picture taken January 19, 2011.REUTERS/Jason Lee. In 1995, a former school teacher from China named Jack Ma visited the United States for the first time. Ma had recently started a translation company to capitalize on China's export boom. When he was in the U.S., as part of his translation business, a friend showed him the internet.