Kabir Misra has been a director of Alibaba since September 2020 and was redesignated as an independent director in February 2023. He is currently a managing partner at RPS Ventures, a Los Altos, California venture capital firm investing in emerging technology companies. Before October 2018 he was a managing partner at SoftBank Investment Advisors (which manages the SoftBank Vision Fund) and SoftBank Capital, working with SoftBank from 2006 to 2022 and assisting Masayoshi Son with matters relating to Alibaba since before its IPO. Mr. Misra is also an independent director of PayActiv and Cargomatic, and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Harvard University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.