Dr. Liang Jia'en (梁家恩), is a co-founder, chairman of the Board, executive Director, deputy general manager and chief technology officer of the Company.

Prior to founding the Group, Dr. Liang worked at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences from July 2006 to February 2011, where he was primarily responsible for the R&D, optimization and application of speech recognition technologies, including keyword detection technologies, large-scale continuous speech recognition, and an objective standard-based automatic oral evaluation system which was applied in high school entrance exams of Jiangsu and Wenzhou. Dr. Liang was qualified as a senior engineer in October 2024. In June 2025, Dr. Liang was appointed as a member of the Guangxi Artificial Intelligence Strategic Advisory Expert Committee.

Dr. Liang obtained his bachelor's degree in automatic control from University of Science and Technology of China in Anhui Province, PRC in July 2001, and his Ph.D. in pattern recognition and intelligent systems from the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, PRC in July 2006.

Dr. Huang Wei (黃偉), is a co-founder, executive Director, chief executive officer and general manager of the Company.

Dr. Huang worked at Motorola China Research Center from September 2006 to July 2009, where he was primarily responsible for the development of voice and speech recognition technologies. Dr. Huang served as a director of Shanghai Yinlong Information Technology Co., Ltd. from August 2012 to November 2015.

Dr. Huang obtained his doctor's degree in signal and information processing from University of Science and Technology of China in Anhui Province, PRC in June 2004, and engaged in postdoctoral research of biomedical engineering in Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, PRC from July 2004 to June 2006.

Dr. Kang Heng (康恒), is an executive Director and vice president of IoT department of the Company.

Before joining the Group, Dr. Kang served as a researcher in Canon Information Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. from April 2007 to August 2011, where he was primarily responsible for the R&D of multilingual speech synthesis technology and multi-modal interaction technology.

Dr. Kang obtained his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing, PRC in July 2000, and his doctoral degree in pattern recognition and intelligent system from the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, PRC in January 2007.

Dr. Li Xiaohan (李霄寒), is an executive Director and vice president of R&D of the Company.

Before joining the Group, Dr. Li worked as a technology manager of Motorola Mobile Communication Technology Co., Ltd. from July 2003 to September 2005, where he was primarily responsible for R&D of embedded applications. He also worked at Motorola China Research Center from September 2005 to July 2009, where he was primarily responsible for the development of AI technology on embedded applications.

Dr. Li obtained his bachelor's degree in electronic engineering and his doctor's degree in signal and information systems from University of Science and Technology of China in Anhui Province, PRC in July 1998 and July 2003, respectively. In October 2023, Dr. Li passed the qualification evaluation conducted by the Senior Engineer Qualification Review Committee of the Engineering and Technical Series of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and was granted the qualification of senior engineer.

Dr. Liu Shengping (劉升平), is an executive Director (Employee Representative Director) and vice president of R&D of the Company.

Before joining the Group, Dr. Liu worked as a research staff in IBM China Investment Company Limited from July 2005 to July 2011, where he was primarily responsible for the R&D on application of semantic and knowledge graph technology.

Dr. Liu obtained his bachelor's degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University in Shaanxi, PRC in July 1999, and his doctor's degree in applied mathematics from Peking University in Beijing, PRC in July 2005.

Mr. Hu Jianjun (胡建軍), is an independent non-executive Director of the Company.

Mr. Hu has served as a partner of Baker Tilly International (Special General Partnership Accounting Firm) since March 2012, and currently serves as the director of its Shanghai branch and Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone branch, and the chairman of its IPO professional committee. He has served as a director of Jinko Power Technology Co., Ltd. (stock code: 601778.SH) from June 2017 to September 2025, an independent director of lkd Co., Ltd. (stock code: 600933.SH) from August 2018 to September 2024, and an independent director of Nanjing Medlander Medical Technology Co., Ltd. (stock code: 688273.SH) from September 2020 to September 2023.

Mr. Hu is a director of Shanghai Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and a member of the Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the CPA Australia and the IPA Australia.

Mr. Hu obtained his bachelor's degree in accounting from Hunan University in PRC in December 2001, and his master's degree in accounting from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in December 2009 and master's degree in business administration from China Europe International Business School in April 2018.

Dr. Fan Jian (樊健), is an independent non-executive Director of the Company.

Dr. Fan has served as an associate professor of the School of Law in Shanghai University of Finance and Economics since July 2021, and a part-time lawyer of Zhejiang T&C Law Firm (Shenzhen) since July 2025.

Dr. Fan served as an independent director of Xinling Electrical Co., Ltd. (stock code: 301388.SZ) from August 2020 to March 2023, and has served as an independent director of Shanghai Shangshi Aviation Engine Co., Ltd. since November 2021, Shanghai Phoenix Enterprise (Group) Co., Ltd. (stock code: 600679.SH) since February 2022, and Shanghai Tongling Automotive Technologies, Inc. (stock code: 920187.BJ) since August 2022.

Dr. Fan obtained his bachelor's degree in law from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics in PRC in June 2006, his master's degree in civil and commercial law from China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, PRC in June 2009, and his doctor's degrees in law from Tsinghua University in Beijing, PRC and Graduate School of Law, Tohoku University in July 2013 and September 2013, respectively.

Dr. Jin Huihua (金慧華), is an independent non-executive Director of the Company.

Dr. Jin worked at Pucheng People's Court of Fujian Province from July 1991 to November 1996 (during which period she was a postgraduate student at East China University of Political Science and Law from September 1993 to June 1996). Dr. Jin served as a lecturer from November 1998 to November 2001, an associate professor from December 2001 to November 2009 and a professor since December 2009 of the school of law of Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance. She was a visiting scholar of Queen Mary University of London from November 2017 to November 2018. Dr. Jin has served as a lawyer of Shulun & Partners (Shanghai) since September 2013. Dr. Jin is currently an arbitrator of Shanghai Arbitration Commission and Shanghai International Economic and Trade/Arbitration Commission.

Dr. Jin obtained her bachelor's degree in international economic law from the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, PRC in July 1991, and her master's and doctor's degrees in law from East China University of Political Science and Law in Shanghai, PRC in June 1996 and January 2007, respectively.

Dr. Zhang Kun (張坤), is an independent non-executive Director of the Company.

Dr. Zhang has an extensive background in academia and a wealth of experience in the field of machine learning. Dr. Zhang, currently the Acting Chair and Professor in the Machine Learning Department, and the director of the Center of Integrative AI at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence since October 2023, also holds the position of Professor in the Department of Philosophy and affiliate faculty member in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University since July 2025. Prior to that, he served as an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University from August 2015. Dr. Zhang's distinguished career includes the role of Senior Researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, Germany. Additionally, he has contributed significantly to the academic community as an Associate Editor for prestigious journals such as JASA, JMLR, T-PAMI, ACM Computing Surveys and Pattern Recognition, and a General and Program Chair of the 1st Conference on Causal Learning and Reasoning (CleaR 2022) and a program chair of the 38th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2022).

Dr. Zhang obtained his bachelor's degree in automation engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China in Anhui Province, PRC in July 2001, and his doctor's degree in computer science from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in December 2005.