Intchains Group Limited (ICG)

Qiang Ding founded the business and has been chairman and chief executive since it began in December 2017. Before that he was a software engineer at Shanghai Jade Microelectronics, a senior engineer at Freescale Shanghai from 2006 to 2009, and then head of research and development and deputy general manager at Shanghai InfoTM Microelectronics until January 2018. Chaohua Sheng, a co-founder, has been chief technology officer from the start and a director since December 2021; he was chief technology officer of Shanghai Freqchip Microelectronics and, before that, a research and development manager at OmniVision Technologies. Chaowei Yan, chief financial officer since December 2021, joined in May 2021 after audit work at Ernst & Young Hua Ming in Shanghai and at KPMG Huazhen. 1234567

Control sits with the two founders. The company has two classes of shares, and each Class B share carries ten votes to a Class A share's one. Ding holds about 34% of the shares and 64% of the votes, Sheng about 14% of the shares and 26% of the votes, and the directors and officers together command 90% of the votes. 248910

Three independent directors have sat on the board since March 2023, the month the company completed its initial public offering on the Nasdaq Capital Market: Conway Kong-Wai Lee, a partner of Ernst & Young for 29 years; Dr. Qingyang Gu, an associate professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy of the National University of Singapore; and Dr. Weiping Ma, chief executive of West China Cement from 2015 to 2023. On the record this site holds, all six directors and officers filed their first insider reports with the SEC in March 2026. 1112131415161718

At the end of 2025 Intchains had 127 full-time employees, substantially all in mainland China, down from 133 at the end of 2023 and of 2024. Seven in ten, 88 people, work in research and development; 13 work in sales and marketing, 17 in administration and nine in finance and accounting. 192021