{"url_path":"/sec/ablv/10-k/2026/item-6","section_key":"item-6","section_title":"Item 6 DIRECTORS, SENIOR MANAGEMENT AND EMPLOYEES**","topic":"sec","document":{"doc_type":"20-F","doc_date":"2026-04-27","source_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1957489/0001213900-26-048085-index.html","accession_number":"0001213900-26-048085","cik":"0001957489","ticker":"ABLV","issuer_name":"Able View Global Inc.","edgar_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1957489/0001213900-26-048085-index.html","primary_entity_key":"0001957489","primary_entity_name":"Able View Global Inc."},"word_count":3131,"has_tables":true,"body_markdown":"**ITEM\n6. DIRECTORS, SENIOR MANAGEMENT AND EMPLOYEES**\n\n** **\n\n**A.\nDirectors and Executive Officers**\n\n \n\nThe\nboard of directors and executive officers of the Company as of the date of this Report are as follows.\n\n \n\n**Name**\n \n**Age**\n \n**Position**\n\n**Executive\nOfficers**\n \n \n \n \n\nStephen\nJian Zhu\n \n46\n \nChairman,\nDirector and Chief Executive Officer\n\nTang\nJing\n \n52\n \nDirector\nand Chief Financial Officer\n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n**Non-Executive\nDirector**s\n \n \n \n \n\nYilun\nWu\n \n49\n \nIndependent\nDirector\n\nYimin\nZhou\n \n63\n \nIndependent\nDirector\n\nZhifan\nZhou\n \n40\n \nIndependent\nDirector\n\n** **\n\n75\n\n \n\n** **\n\n**Mr. Stephen Jian Zhu**, aged 46, serves\nas Chairman, Director and Chief Executive officer of the Company. He has over 20 years of experience in marketing and business development\narea. From 2016 to present, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Able View where he was responsible for brand and business development\nfor the Company through his expansive network in multiple beauty industry verticals and Responsible for the overall work of the Company.\nPreviously, he served as the Chief Operating Officer of Search Tiger Media where he was responsible for national marketing and expansion\ninto the media market. Mr. Zhu received a bachelor’s degree in advertising and marketing from Tongji University and a Master of\nBusiness Administration degree from Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business.\n\n \n\n**Mr. Tang Jing**, aged 52, serves as Director\nand Chief Financial Officer of the Company. He has over 20 years of experience in finance and accounting area. From 2017 to present,\nhe served as Chief Financial Officer of Able View where he is responsible for managing financial activities such as listing, financing,\nfund management, budgeting, mergers and acquisitions. He has held similar positions in other companies, including AMH Media Holding Company.\nHe received a bachelor’s degree in finance and accounting from Shanghai University and received his Master of Business Administration\nfrom University of Birmingham (United Kingdom). He is also a duly licensed Certified Public Accountant in China.\n\n** **\n\n**Mr. Yilun Wu**, aged 49, serves as an independent\ndirector of the Company. He has over 20 years of experience in financial and accounting area. Since 2022, he is the China CFO of Johnson\nControls Corporation (“JCI”). From 2015 to 2021, he served as Asia Finance Director, Finance Director for Global Industrial\nRefrigeration (IR) and Middle East & Africa and Finance Director for Global Products Asia and Middle East in JCI in different period\nof these 7 years, where he oversaw the finance operations of global products in the regional including indirect business, integrated supply\nchain, product management and engineering, and is responsible for all M&A deals and business/manufacturing integration in APAC. From\n2008 to 2015, he served as a Corporate Audit Director, an Asia Finance Controller and an Asia Pacific Finance Director in Honeywell Inc\nin different periods of these 8 years, where he oversaw the entire finance operation of Honeywell Sensing and Control in Asia Pacific\nand led the process of STRAP and AOP from finance. Mr. Wu received the bachelor’s degree of Arts in Accounting and Finance with\nhonors in 1998 from University of Greenwich, and the master’s degree of Arts in International Finance in 1999 from Middlesex University.\n\n** **\n\n**Mr.\nYimin Zhou**, aged 63, serves as an independent director of the Company. He has over 30 years of experience in business operation.\nFrom June 2014 to October 2014 and from April 2018 to July 2020, he served as Vice President of Supply Chain and Operations in Great\nChina Region in Fonterra, responsible for general management in importing, demand planning, warehousing, transportation, customer service\nand complaints, and third-party manufacturing. From January 2001 to March 2014, he served as a Supply Chain Director of China Business\nUnit in Pepsi-Cola International, being responsible for making and executing the company’s strategies plan. He received the bachelor’s\ndegree of Science in Inorganic Material Science and Engineering in August 1984 from East China University of Technology, the Master of\nBusiness Administration in Finance and Risk Management in August 1993 from St. John University, and the Executive Master of Business\nAdministration in May 2018 from Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business.\n\n** ** \n\n**Mr.\nZhifan Zhou**, aged 40, serves as an independent director of the Company. Mr. Zhou has over ten years of experience in investment banking,\naudit, private equity and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Zhou has served as the General Manager of Hainan Winlong Capital, an investment\ncompany, since April 2021, where he leads the mergers and acquisitions operations. Prior to that, Mr. Zhou served as Vice President and\nGeneral Manager of Capital Operations of Shanzhinong Co., Ltd., a B2B e-commerce platform company, from March 2020 to April 2021, where\nhe was responsible for acquiring assets of the agricultural sector in China. He also served as the Head of Finance Department of Wanda\nInformation Stock Co., Ltd., a software company, from December 2019 to March 2020, where he was responsible for due diligence and integration\nof wholly-owned subsidiaries; Deputy General Manager of Xinghe Real Estate Financial Group Shanghai Company, a financial group company,\nfrom March 2018 to June 2019, where he was responsible for platform financing; Deputy General Manager of Cefc Anhui Internal Holding\nCo., Ltd., an investment company, from October 2014 to March 2018, where he participated in various mergers and acquisitions; and Senior\nProject Manager in the investment banking department of Zheshang Securities Co., Ltd., a securities company, from June 2013 to October\n2014, where he participated in multiple mergers and acquisitions. From September 2010 to June 2013, Mr. Zhou served as Senior Consultant\nof PricewaterhouseCooper Consultants (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Shanghai branch, a consulting company where he provided risk management and\ninternal control services and was experienced with cross-border IPO audits. Mr. Zhou received bachelor’s degrees in international\neconomic law and accounting from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics in July 2008, and a master’s degree in law from The\nChinese University of Hong Kong in December 2010. Mr. Zhou has been a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and holds Certificate of Computer\nApplication Techniques (CCAT) and Legal Profession Qualification Certificate in China.\n\n \n\n76\n\n \n\n \n\nThe\nbusiness and affairs of the Company are managed by or under the supervision of the Company Board. The Company Board consist of five directors:\nMr. Stephen Jian Zhu, Mr. Tang Jing as executive directors, and Mr. Yilun Wu, Mr. Yimin Zhou and Mr. Zhifan Zhou as independent directors,\nwith Mr. Stephen Jian Zhu serving as Chairman of the Company Board. The primary responsibilities of the Company Board is to provide oversight,\nstrategic guidance, counselling and direction to our management. The Company Board meets on a regular basis and additionally as required.\n\n** **\n\n**Family\nRelationships**\n\n \n\nThere\nare no family relationships between any of the Company’s executive officers and directors.\n\n \n\n**B.\nCompensation**\n\n \n\n**Compensation\nof Directors and Executive Officers**\n\n** **\n\nUnder\nCayman Islands law, we are not required to disclose compensation paid to our senior management on an individual basis and we have not\notherwise publicly disclosed this information elsewhere. In 2025, our directors and management receive fixed and variable compensation.\nThe fixed component of their compensation is set on market terms and adjusted annually. The variable component consists of cash bonuses.\nCash bonuses are paid to executive officers and members of our senior management based on previously agreed targets for the business.\n\n \n\nThe\naggregate cash compensation accrued to Able View’s directors and executive officers who were employed by Able View in fiscal year\n2025 was approximately US$388,330.\n\n** **\n\nThe\nCompany is developing an executive compensation program that is consistent with existing compensation policies and philosophies of Nasdaq-listed\npeer companies, which are designed to align the interest of executive officers with those of its stakeholders, while enabling the Company\nto attract, motivate and retain individuals who contribute to the long-term success of the Company.\n\n \n\n**C.\nBoard Practices**\n\n \n\n**Foreign\nPrivate Issuer and Controlled Company**\n\n \n\nWe\nare a foreign private issuer within the meaning of the rules under the Exchange Act and, as such, the Company is permitted to follow\nthe corporate governance practices of its home country, the Cayman Islands, in lieu of the corporate governance standards of Nasdaq applicable\nto U.S. domestic companies. For example, the Company is not required to have a majority of the board consisting of independent directors\nnor have a compensation committee or a nominating and corporate governance committee consisting entirely of independent directors. the\nCompany may elect to follow its home country’s corporate governance practices as long as its remains a foreign private issuer.\nAs a result, our shareholders may not have the same protection afforded to shareholders of U.S. domestic companies that are subject to\nNasdaq corporate governance requirements. As a foreign private issuer, the Company is also subject to reduced disclosure requirements\nand are exempt from certain provisions of the U.S. securities rules and regulations applicable to U.S. domestic issuers such as the rules\nregulating solicitation of proxies and certain insider reporting and short-swing profit rules. Nonetheless, the Company intends to align\nitself with the practices adopted by Nasdaq-listed U.S. domestic companies to the best of its ability to provide its shareholders with\nenhanced transparency and protection.\n\n \n\nWe\nare a “controlled company” as defined under the rules of Nasdaq, because Healthy Great Investing Company Limited is able\nto exercise approximately 91.0% of the aggregate voting power of our total issued and outstanding shares (assuming no Ordinary Shares\nare redeemed as described in this annual report). Under the rules of Nasdaq, a “controlled company” may elect not to comply\nwith certain corporate governance requirements. As a result, our shareholders may not have the same protection afforded to shareholders\nof companies that are subject to these corporate governance requirements. Nonetheless, the Company intends to align itself with the practices\nadopted by Nasdaq-listed non-controlled companies to the best of its ability to provide its shareholders with enhanced transparency and\nprotection.\n\n \n\n77\n\n \n\n** **\n\n**Independence\nof Directors**\n\n \n\nThe\nCompany adheres to the rules of Nasdaq, as applicable to foreign private issuers and controlled companies, in determining whether a director\nis independent. The board of directors of the Company has consulted, and will consult, with its counsel to ensure that the board of directors’\ndeterminations are consistent with those rules and all relevant securities and other laws and regulations regarding the independence\nof directors. Mr. Yilun Wu, Mr. Yimin Zhou, and Mr. Zhifan Zhou are “independent directors” as defined in the rules of Nasdaq\nand applicable SEC rules.\n\n** **\n\n**Risk\nOversight**\n\n \n\nThe\nBoard of Directors is responsible for overseeing our risk management process. The Board focuses on our general risk management strategy,\nthe most significant risks facing the Company, and oversight of the implementation of risk mitigation strategies by the management of\nthe Company. Our audit committee is responsible for discussing the Company’s policies with respect to risk assessment and risk\nmanagement.\n\n \n\nThe\nBoard appreciates the evolving nature of its business and industry and is actively involved with monitoring new threats and risks as\nthey emerge. In particular, the Board is responsible for closely monitoring any epidemic, conflicts and its potential effects on the\nCompany’s business, and risk mitigation strategies. While the Company has not yet experienced significant impact on the situation\nin Ukraine caused by the Russian invasion, or the trade war between the United States and China, the Board also closely monitors the\nrisks in relation to such development, including but not limited to risks related to cybersecurity, sanctions, supply chain, suppliers\nand service providers.\n\n \n\nOur\nBoard of Directors is responsible for the oversight of the operational risk management, which includes cybersecurity risk management.\nIn terms of the cybersecurity risk management, the Board receives periodic reporting from the Company’s officers on (i) material\nissues related to cybersecurity risks arising from the business operations, for instance the cooperation with our supply chain, suppliers\nand/or important service providers, and any methods adopted to resolve; and (ii) the legal compliance with cybersecurity and data protection.\nIn addition, Able View’s board of directors has taken the following measures in overseeing cybersecurity risks:\n\n** **\n\n**1.\nImprove the awareness of network information security protection**\n\n \n\nAble\nView carries out network security protection awareness training for all employees from time to time, requiring employees not to register\ntheir real information during network operation, including name, address, telephone number, ID number, etc., and secondly, to follow\nsecure password policies, such as length requirements; mixed use of numbers, upper and lower case letters, special characters; password\nlife requirements and password history requirements, etc.\n\n** **\n\n**2.\nFirewall and anti-virus software installation**\n\n \n\nEmployees\nare required to install firewall and anti-virus software to the host system of the Able View’s equipment, update the firewall version\nand virus library of anti-virus software in time, so as to cope with the continuous development of new viruses, and finally configure\nthe protection level of firewall and anti-virus software according to the network security level.\n\n** **\n\n**3.\nDigital signature and file encryption technology**\n\n \n\nFor\nimportant contracts and data within the company, digital signature or file encryption technology is required to protect files, so that\ndata information will not be tampered or leaked arbitrarily, and file security is guaranteed.\n\n \n\n**4.\nContracts with confidentiality clauses**\n\n \n\nDuring\nAble View’s cooperation with suppliers, customers and service providers, confidentiality clauses are required to be added to relevant\ncontracts and agreements. Any matter, information or materials obtained from the other party due to the signing or performance of the\nagreements or for any other reason, including but not limited to the business secret or other secret of the other party shall not be\ndisclosed to any third party without permission. Confidential information includes but not limited to (i) any matter formulated in writing\nor orally or marked as confidential or financial information, and any matter that either party shall identify as confidential information\naccording to the circumstances of disclosure; (ii) either party’s product plan, sales plan, incentive policy, customer information,\nfinancial information, trading information, operation system, etc., and non-patented technology, design, procedure, technical information,\nproduction method, information source, marketing, product strategy and business plan; (iii) any liaison between the parties and concerning\nthe agreement; (iv) any duplicate, summary, briefing or any other form of aforesaid information; and (v) any information which may have\nalready been disclosed before the agreement is signed and delivered.\n\n** **\n\n78\n\n \n\n** **\n\n**Committees\nof the Board of directors**\n\n** **\n\n**Audit\nCommittee**\n\n \n\nOur\naudit committee consists of Mr. Yilun Wu, Mr. Yimin Zhou, and Mr. Zhifan Zhou, with Mr. Yilun Wu serving as chairperson. Our Board has\ndetermined that all such directors meet the independence requirements under the Nasdaq Listing Rules and under Rule 10A-3 of the Exchange\nAct. Each member of the audit committee is financially literate, in accordance with Nasdaq audit committee requirements, and possesses\nprior experience sitting in auditing committees of publicly-listed companies. In arriving at this determination, the Company Board examined\neach audit committee member’s scope of experience and the nature of their prior and/or current employment.\n\n** **\n\n**Nomination\nCommittee**\n\n \n\nOur\nnomination committee consists of Mr. Yimin Zhou, Mr. Yilun Wu, and Mr. Zhifan Zhou, with Mr. Yimin Zhou serving as chairperson. The nomination\ncommittee is responsible for the assessment of the performance of the board, considering and making recommendations to the board with\nrespect to the nominations or elections of directors and other governance issues.\n\n** **\n\n**Compensation\nCommittee**\n\n \n\nOur\ncompensation committee consists of Mr. Zhifan Zhou, Mr. Yilun Wu, and Mr. Yimin Zhou, with Mr. Zhifan Zhou serving as chairperson. The\ncompensation committee is responsible for reviewing and making recommendations to the Board regarding its compensation policies for its\nofficers and all forms of compensation. The compensation committee administers our equity-based and incentive compensation plans and\nmakes recommendations to the Company Board about amendments to such plans and the adoption of any new employee incentive compensation\nplans.\n\n** **\n\n**Code\nof Ethics**\n\n \n\nThe\nCompany has adopted a Code of Ethics that applies to all of its employees, officers, and directors. This includes our principal executive\nofficer, principal financial officer, and principal accounting officer or controller, or persons performing similar functions. We intend\nto disclose on our website any future amendments of the Code of Ethics or waivers that exempt any principal executive officer, principal\nfinancial officer, principal accounting officer or controller, persons performing similar functions, or our directors from provisions\nin the Code of Ethics. A copy of the Code of Ethics is filed as Exhibit 11.1 to this Form 20-F.\n\n** **\n\n**Shareholder\nCommunication with the Board of directors**\n\n \n\nShareholders\nand other interested parties may communicate with the board of directors, including non-management directors, by sending a letter to\nus at Floor 16, Dushi Headquarters Building, No. 168, Middle Xizang Road, Shanghai, 200001, People’s Republic of China for submission\nto the board of directors or committee or to any specific director to whom the correspondence is directed. Shareholders communicating\nthrough these means should include with the correspondence evidence, such as documentation from a brokerage firm, that the sender is\na current record or beneficial shareholder of the Company. All communications received as set forth above will be opened by the Corporate\nSecretary or his or her designee for the sole purpose of determining whether the contents contain a message to one or more of our directors.\nAny contents that are not advertising materials, promotions of a product or service, patently offensive materials or matters deemed,\nusing reasonable judgment, inappropriate for the board of directors will be forwarded promptly to the chairman of the board of directors,\nthe appropriate committee or the specific director, as applicable.\n\n \n\n**D.\nEmployees**\n\n \n\nAs\nof December 31, 2025, we had 164 employees combined in our continuing operations, consisting of 164 full-time and 0 part-time employees.\nThe number of employees for each area of operations, and such employees as a percentage of our total workforce, are as follows:\n\n \n\n  \nAs of December 31, 2025 \n\n  \nEmployees  \nPercentage \n\nBrand Operating \n 21  \n 12.81%\n\nSupply Chain \n 8  \n 4.88%\n\nIT Data Analysis \n 5  \n 3.05%\n\nBusiness Development \n 108  \n 65.85%\n\nFinancial and Administration Supporting \n 22  \n 13.41%\n\n  \n    \n   \n\nTotal \n 164  \n 100%\n\n** **\n\n79\n\n \n\n** **\n\nAs\nof December 31, 2024, we had 85 employees combined in our continuing operations, consisting of 85 full-time and 0 part-time employees.\nThe number of employees for each area of operations, and such employees as a percentage of our total workforce, are as follows:\n\n \n\n  \nAs of December 31, 2024 \n\n  \nEmployees  \nPercentage \n\nBrand Operating \n 27  \n 31.76%\n\nSupply Chain \n 8  \n 9.41%\n\nIT Data Analysis \n 5  \n 5.88%\n\nBusiness Development \n 28  \n 32.94%\n\nFinancial and Administration Supporting \n 17  \n 20.01%\n\n  \n    \n   \n\nTotal \n 85  \n 100%\n\n \n\nAs\nof December 31, 2023, we had 95 employees combined in our continuing operations, consisting of 95 full-time and 0 part-time employees.\nThe number of employees for each area of operations, and such employees as a percentage of our total workforce, are as follows:\n\n \n\n  \nAs of December 31, 2023 \n\n  \nEmployees  \nPercentage \n\nBrand Operating \n 43  \n 45.26%\n\nSupply Chain \n 9  \n 9.47%\n\nIT Data Analysis \n 5  \n 5.26%\n\nBusiness Development \n 24  \n 25.26%\n\nFinancial and Administration Supporting \n 14  \n 14.75%\n\n  \n    \n   \n\nTotal \n 95  \n 100%\n\n** **\n\nThe\nCompany’s employees have no material activities related to labor unions.\n\n** **\n\n**E.\nShare Ownership**\n\n \n\nPlease\nsee *Item 7-Major Shareholders and Related Party Transactions* below.\n\n \n\n**F.\nDisclosure of a Registrant’s Action to Recover Erroneously Awarded Compensation**\n\n \n\nNot\nApplicable."}