, Took him directly to the company to observe the meeting, “Children who are only a few years old sit there quietly, not even moving.”

From this, Zhang Kangyang had a mature, low-key and sophisticated that far surpassed his peers, and he always obeyed his father’s words. It was not until the age of 15 that Zhang Kangyang, who wanted to go abroad to see, talked back to Zhang Jindong.

Zhang Kangyang, who was victorious in the “Cold War” between his father and his son, went to the United States to study at Fort Moses College, a traditional elite high school, and entered the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. After graduation, he worked in investment banks such as Morgan Stanley Capital Markets. Financing work.

In 2013, the year when Zhang Kangyang entered the financial company as an intern, Zhang Jindong made the determination to move all his business to the Internet. He even changed the company name to Suning Cloud Business. Subsequently, it launched a more aggressive and aggressive expansion plan-to enter the sports industry.

At that time, the extended sports industry was not only a link to establish connections and emotional communication with fans, for retail companies including Suning, but also a super portal for attracting user traffic, a huge development potential. Gold mine.

In 2013, under the single-handed leadership of Zhang Jindong, Suning acquired the video site PPTV. Subsequently, from 2015 to 2016, PPTV quickly grasped the core sports copyrights of the Super League and the AFC Champions League.

In order to make Suning’s brand influence greater in the international sports world, there is still a lack of the most critical link, to have a top-notch team-just like when the Russian rich Abramovich took over Chelsea and Glazer of the United States After the family entered Manchester United, they are well known by fans all over the world.

On June 6, 2016, the acquisition of the 110-year-old Serie A giant Inter Milan was a key position for Zhang Jindong in the sports industry. In this process, Zhang Kangyang, who returned to China a year ago to study at Suning’s President’s Office, took control of Inter Milan as the vice president of Suning International and formally entered the public’s field of vision.

Since then, Zhang Kangyang’s position has progressed step by step, from a representative of the controlling party, to a member of the board of directors, and then to become the chairman of the Inter Milan Club in October 2018.

Zhang Kangyang, on behalf of Suning International, signed a cooperation agreement with ITA Chairman Carlo Fero

“This arrangement is quite painstaking. One is to set up tricky challenges at the beginning of the succession, which is obviously intended to give Zhang Kangyang more experience;It is the success or failure of Inter Milan, and does not directly affect Suning’s core business. “An observer said that in Suning’s huge business map, Inter Club can only be regarded as a peripheral industry, but it also gives Zhang Kangyang the opportunity and space to develop himself and “make contributions”. At the same time, it can also give him familiarity with management and speed up the relationship with the group. The time for the real power to break in.

Objectively speaking, Zhang Kangyang, a former “football blind”, has done quite well in the past 4 years, showing the rare management “talent” of his peers and leading Inter Milan out of the trough. Although he has not won the championship so far, he has advanced to the Champions League for three consecutive years, narrowing the gap with Serie A overlord Juventus year by year. Before the epidemic, the club’s financial situation also showed a healthy development trend-in the 2018-2019 season, Inter Milan doubled its revenue, and the club’s overall revenue rose by 20% to 417 million euros, a record high.

“When Zhang Kangyang took control of Inter Milan, the members treated him coldly. He ran around Inter Milan at three o’clock every day. Every day except for Inter Milan, he conquered the fans with high-intensity work.” An Inter Milan fan said that Inter Milan’s performance is now steadily rising, which is inseparable from Zhang Kangyang’s efforts.

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The basic domestic core business is unstable

Relying on the “halo” brought by Inter Milan, Zhang Kangyang, who was previously “low-key and mysterious” in China, has become an international celebrity. Italy and other Europeans have also paid attention to Suning soaring, and even interested media follow Suning in real time. Big data, report its every move.

Because of his performance in Inter Milan, during the 2019 Suning Annual Meeting, Zhang Kangyang won the Chairman’s Special Award for the first time-an award that only rewards a small number of employees with significant contributions every year.

However, although Inter Milan’s performance can indeed prove Zhang Kangyang’s ability in some aspects, everyone, including Zhang Kangyang himself, knows that the Inter Milan Club is only a stage or part of the “creation of the second generation” life-yes As far as the “Young Master Suning” has been trained in accordance with the successor standards since he was young, his basic market is still in the country. Only when the domestic basic market is stable can he be firmly established as the “center of power” in the future.

In Suning’s domestic core business, Zhang Kangyang holds three major assets: Suning International, Carrefour China, and Suning.