Nano Labs Ltd (NA)

Jianping Kong has been chairman and chief executive since January 2021. Before that he was co-chairman of Canaan Inc., which the filing calls a provider of supercomputing solutions, from May 2018 to July 2020. Qifeng Sun, vice chairman since January 2021, sat on Canaan's board over the same years, overseeing its sales and marketing. Nan Hu, a director since November 2021, has run Zhejiang Haowei, the operating company, since February 2021, after working as a validation manager at Trident Multi-Media Technology and Entropic. Bing Chen has been chief financial officer and senior vice president since January 2021, after about 27 years at Hangzhou Jinjiang Group. 12345

Kong controls the company. He beneficially owns about 21.6% of the shares but can cast about 54.1% of the votes, because each Class B share carries extra votes: shareholders raised them from 15 to 30 in March 2025 and from 30 to 50 in December 2025. That makes Nano Labs a controlled company under Nasdaq's rules. Kong and Sun have also lent the company money interest-free for its chip research, loans later turned into shares, and have guaranteed its debts. 678910

The board has six directors, three of them independent and all three appointed in July 2022: Jiaming Zhu, who holds an MBA from MIT's Sloan School and a doctorate in economics; Li Zhang, an executive director of Huobi Technology since December 2021 and a vice president of Canaan from March 2018 to August 2020; and Lizhen Xie, an associate professor at Wenzhou University's law school. Kong, Sun and Zhang thus share a past at Canaan. On the record this site holds, all seven officers and directors filed their first insider reports with the SEC in March 2026. 1112131415

At the end of 2025 Nano Labs counted 67 employees, substantially all in China: four in management, 13 in research and development (19.4%), 10 in sales and marketing and 40 in finance, operations and other roles. The research team shrank with the budget: research and development salaries fell from RMB21.0 million in 2024 to RMB2.8 million in 2025 as the company streamlined that work. It also uses workers supplied by labor outsourcing firms, mainly to develop technology it does not count as core. 16171819