Company: ZHIHF
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001410578-25-000729
Chunk: 342

Company: Zhihu Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 6
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DIRECTORS, SENIOR MANAGEMENT AND EMPLOYEES

A. Directors and Senior Management

The following table sets forth information regarding our directors and executive officers as of the date of this annual report.

  Directors and Executive Officers      Age      Position/Title                                  
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  Yuan Zhou                              44      Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer  
  Han Wang                               34      Chief Financial Officer                         
  Bin Sun                                43      Chief Technology Officer                        
  Dahai Li                               44      Director                                        
  Zhaohui Li                             49      Director                                        
  Bing Yu                                45      Director                                        
  Hanhui Sam Sun                         52      Independent Director                            
  Hope Ni                                52      Independent Director                            
  Derek Chen                             49      Independent Director                            

Yuan Zhouis our founder and has served as the chairman of our board of directors and chief executive officer since our inception. Mr. Zhou is an entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in internet and media. Since January 2024, Mr. Zhou has served as a director of Beijing ModelBest Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., a portfolio investee of ours. Prior to founding our company, Mr. Zhou founded Beijing Nuobote Informational Technology Co., Ltd., a start-up company that focused on the development of big data analytics for e-commerce businesses from October 2008 to November 2010. Before that, Mr. Zhou worked as a journalist for the IT Management World magazine from June 2006 to December 2007. Mr. Zhou received a bachelor’s degree in computer science and technology from Chengdu University of Technology in China in June 2003 and a master’s degree in software engineering from Southeast University in China in March 2006.

Han Wanghas served as our chief financial officer since February 2024. Prior to joining Zhihu, from 2020 to 2023, Mr. Wang was with Access Technology Ventures, a global investment platform under Access Industries, Inc., the private holding company and investment firm founded by businessman and philanthropist Len Blavatnik. Prior to that, he held senior positions at leading investment firms, including at Hillhouse Capital as a Vice President between 2018 and 2020, and at Legend Capital as a Director from 2015 to 2018. Mr. Wang received a bachelor’s degree in communication engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in China in 2012.

Bin Sunhas