Key among those is the so-called public cloud — the domestic cloud services arm aimed at enterprise customers in China — which will be led by Liu Weiguang, the person said, asking not to be named as the plans are not public. The reorganisation clarifies reporting lines after nearly a year of management turmoil starting with the departure of former president Jeff Zhang in 2022. Alibaba Cloud has gone without a long-term CEO since then — Daniel Zhang briefly took charge of the business after stepping down as Alibaba's group CEO in June, before he abruptly quit about three months later.