
Cango Inc. Announces Completion of Secondary Acquisition and Appointment of New Leadership Team
On July 23, 2025 , the Board appointed (i) Mr. Xin Jin as Chairman of the Board and Non-Executive Director, (ii) Mr. Peng Yu as CEO and Director, (iii) Mr. Chang-Wei Chiu as Director, (iv) Mr. Yongyi Zhang as CFO and (v) Mr. Simon Ming Yeung Tang as CIO To strengthen governance, the Board also appointed (i) Mr. Chi Ming Lee , Independent Director, as a member of the Compensation Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, (ii) Mr. Yanjun Lin , Independent Director, as Chairman of the Compensation Committee and member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, and (iii) Mr. Haitian Lu as Chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and member of the Compensation Committee. The Board also accepted the resignations of Mr. Xiaojun Zhang as Director and Chairman, and Mr. Jiayuan Lin as CEO, Interim CFO, and Director. All changes are effective immediately.
Mr. Peng Yu , CEO and Director, commented, "This leadership team gives Cango the right mix of skills to execute our next phase of growth. Having successfully transformed into a Bitcoin miner, we have already made remarkable progress in the past 7 months by becoming one of the largest Bitcoin miners in the world. With a strong balance sheet and clear long-term vision, our collective experience will help us scale beyond the 50 EH/s already deployed, not only safeguarding but strategically growing our treasury of more than 4,000 Bitcoins to maximize shareholder value. We will begin developing sustainable, high-performance computing opportunities while strategically expanding upstream into dedicated power resources especially green energy that will create lasting value for shareholders and drive further growth."
Mr. Xiaojun Zhang and Mr. Jiayuan Lin resigned as co-founders coinciding with a secondary sale of 10 million Class B shares to Enduring Wealth Capital Limited for US$70 million . They converted their remaining Class B shares into Class A shares, now holding 18.54% of total outstanding shares and 12.07% of voting power. Enduring Wealth Capital Limited now holds about 2.82% of outstanding shares and 36.73% of voting power..
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Cango Inc.
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