{"url_path":"/sec/aimd/10-k/2026/item-10","section_key":"item-10","section_title":"Item 10 DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE.**","topic":"sec","document":{"doc_type":"10-K","doc_date":"2026-03-30","source_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1014763/0001493152-26-013579-index.html","accession_number":"0001493152-26-013579","cik":"0001014763","ticker":"AIMD","issuer_name":"Ainos, Inc.","edgar_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1014763/0001493152-26-013579-index.html","primary_entity_key":"0001014763","primary_entity_name":"Ainos, Inc."},"word_count":1133,"has_tables":true,"body_markdown":"**ITEM\n10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE.**\n\n \n\nAs\nof March 30, 2026, the directors and executive officers of the Company were as follows:\n\n \n\n**Name**\n** **\n**Age**\n** **\n**Position**\n\nChun-Hsien\nTsai\n \n56\n \nChairman,\nPresident & Chief Executive Officer\n\nWen-Han\nChang\n \n62\n \nDirector\n\nYao-Chung\nChiang\n \n74\n \nDirector\n\nPao-Sheng\nWei\n \n67\n \nDirector\n\nTing-Chuan\nLee\n \n43\n \nDirector\n\nChun-Jung\nTsai\n \n54\n \nDirector\n\nChung-Yi\nTsai\n \n49\n \nDirector\n\nHsin-Liang\nLee\n \n55\n \nChief\nFinancial Officer\n\n \n\n*Chun-Hsien\nTsai*. Mr. Tsai has served as our Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer since April 2021. From April 2021 to August 2021,\nhe also served as Chief Financial Officer. He has served as the chairman and CEO of Taiwan Carbon Nano Technology Corporation (TCNT)\nsince July 2018, as a director of Ainos Inc. (Cayman Islands) since October 2017, as director and CEO of AI Nose Corporation since 2016,\nand as a director of TCNT since 2012. Mr. Tsai holds an EMBA degree from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.\n\n \n\n*Wen-Han\nChang*. Mr. Chang has served as a Director of the Company since April 2021 and has served as the Chairperson of our Compensation Committee\nand a member of our Audit Committee since August 2021. He has been the superintendent at Mackay Memorial Hospital since May 2023 and\nwas deputy superintendent between August 2015 and May 2019. He has devoted his expertise at the department of emergency medicine for\napproximately 30 years. Mr. Chang advocates better public health and AI’s development in the healthcare sector through his leadership\nroles in industry groups in Taiwan. Mr. Chang is the current chairman of Health Intelligent Medical Development Society. From 2019 to\n2021, he was the president of the Childhood Burn Foundation of R.O.C. Mr. Chang holds a Ph.D. in public health from Saint Louis University.\n\n \n\n*Yao-Chung\nChiang*. Mr. Chiang has served as a Director of the Company since April 2021 and has served as a member of our Audit Committee since\nAugust 2021. Mr. Chiang served as the chairman of Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation from October 2016 to January 2025, and has served\nas an independent director of Golden Friends Corp. since June 2025 and as an independent director for Radiant Opto-Electronics Corporation\nsince June 2012. From June 2015 to July 2021, Mr. Chang was an independent director for Tyntek Corp. Mr. Chiang served as the chairman\nfor other Taiwan-incorporated companies including China Steel Chemical Corporation, Kaohsiung Rapid Transit Corporation, China Steel\nCorporation and China Airlines. Mr. Chiang holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison.\n\n \n\n*Pao-Sheng\nWei.* Mr. Wei has served as a Director of the Company, Chairperson of the Audit Committee and as a member of the Compensation Committee\nsince June 2022. He has served as the vice chairman of TS Financial Holding Co., Ltd since July 2025, the chairman of Shin Kong Life\nInsurance Co., Ltd since June 2023 and as an independent director of Nuvoton Technology Corporation since June 2022. From July 2024 to\nJuly 2025, Mr. Wei served as chairman of Shin Kong Financial Holding Co., Ltd. From September 2014 to June 2022, Mr. Wei served as the\nchairman of KGI Bank Co., Ltd. Mr. Wei held leadership roles in the banking, securities and insurance sectors in Taiwan. He was a securities\nregulator as the Division Director of Corporate Finance of the Securities and Futures Bureau of the Financial Supervisory Commission,\nR.O.C. (Taiwan). Mr. Wei holds an MBA degree from George Washington University.\n\n \n\n*Ting-Chuan\nLee*. Ms. Lee has served as a Director of the Company since April 2021. She is also a manager at the CEO office. She has served as\nthe chairperson of AI Nose Corporation since March 2016, and as a member of the board of director of Taiwan Carbon Nano Technology Corporation\n(TCNT) since July 2012. Ms. Lee holds a master’s degree of science from National Taiwan University.\n\n \n\n44\n\n \n\n \n\n*Chun-Jung\nTsai*. Mr. Tsai has served as a Director of the Company since April 2021. He is also a manager of the Company’s sales team.\nHe has served as a director of Ainos Inc. (Cayman Islands) since 2019, a director of AI Nose Corporation since March 2016, and a director\nof Taiwan Carbon Nano Technology Corporation (TCNT) since July 2012.\n\n \n\n*Chung-Yi\nTsai*. Mr. Tsai has served as a member of our Board of Directors since April 2021 and as a director of TCNT since July 2012. Mr. Tsai\nis a seasoned executive in product and business development in the technology hardware sector. From May 2023 to present, he has served\nas a senior product marketing director at Alpha & Omega Semiconductor. Prior to that, he has served as a senior product marketing\nmanager in Renesas Electronics from June 2022 to May 2023, executive business manager at Maxim Integrated from November 2019 to June\n2022, and as a senior product marketing manager at Intersil Corporation from October 2013 to November 2019. Mr. Tsai has a master’s\ndegree in business administration from Golden Gate University.\n\n \n\n*Hsin-Liang\nLee.* Mr. Lee has served as our Chief Financial Officer since March 2024. Mr. Lee brings over 25 years of experience in accounting\nand finance, encompassing US GAAP, PCAOB standards, and SEC rules and regulations. Before joining the Company, Mr. Lee served as CFO\nof a Nasdaq-listed company for 10 years, was a partner at KEDP CPA Group from August 2009 to June 2011, and operated as a self-employed\naccountant from July 2011 to August 2014. He has served on the Board of Directors of Aixin Life International Inc. since February 2021.\nMr. Lee holds a BS degree in accounting from Ohio State University and an MS degree in business taxation from Golden Gate University.\nHe is licensed as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in the United States.\n\n \n\n**Family\nrelationships.**\n\n \n\nMr.\n*Chun-Hsien Tsai* and Ms. *Ting-Chuan Lee* are husband and wife. Mr. *Chun-Hsien Tsai*, Mr. *Chun-Jung Tsai,* and\nMr. *Chung-Yi Tsai*are brothers. Ms. *Ting-Chuan Lee* is the sister-in-law of Mr. *Chun-Jung Tsai*and Mr. *Chung-Yi\nTsai*.\n\n \n\n**Term\nof Office**\n\n \n\nOur\ndirectors shall hold office for the term for which he is elected and until his successor shall have been elected and qualified in accordance\nwith our bylaws. Our officers shall hold office until his successor shall have been duly elected and qualified or until his death or\nuntil he shall resign or shall have been removed by the board in accordance with our bylaws.\n\n \n\n**Audit\nCommittee**\n\n \n\nOur\nAudit Committee consists of Mr. Wen-Han Chang, Mr. Yao-Chung Chiang and Mr. Pao-Sheng Wei, each of whom has been determined to be “independent”\nunder applicable rules and regulations of the SEC and the listing standards of Nasdaq and also meets the financial literacy requirements\nof the listing standards of Nasdaq. Mr. Wei currently serves as Chairperson of our Audit Committee.\n\n \n\nOur\nBoard has determined that the three audit committee members qualify as “audit committee financial experts” as defined in"}