Name Michael Evans Role Olympic athlete | Education Princeton University | |
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John Michael "Mike" Evans (born August 16, 1957 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian rower who has been a business executive at Goldman Sachs and Alibaba.
Evans was a member of the Canadian men's eights team that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. His twin brother Mark was on the same winning team. He is a graduate of Upper Canada College, Princeton University and Oxford University. He had also previously studied at University College, Oxford where he rowed at the stroke oar for Oxford in the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race.
Evans was vice chairman of Goldman Sachs, chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia and for 20 years a partner in the firm. In 2015, he was appointed president of Alibaba Group reporting to Daniel Zhang. Evans had served on the board of Alibaba since its September 2014 IPO and will continue on the board as a management member. He had known Alibaba founder Jack Ma since before 2005. In the high-profile IPO, Goldman was one of six lead underwriters with Mark Schwartz, chairman of Goldman Asia Pacific, named as lead banker for Goldman in a lead-up New York Times report.