Mr. LI Yu, aged 40, was appointed as Chief Executive Officer on April 15, 2026. He is responsible for implementing and promoting the Group’s development strategies as well as the operation and improvement of the Group’s restaurant business. Mr. LI used to serve as the chief executive officer of the Company from March 30, 2023 to June 30, 2024, and has been serving as the chief operating officer of the Company since March 17, 2025. He holds directorships at 28 subsidiaries of the Group. Mr. LI has been tempered through numerous experiences in “Hard Bone” regions within the Group, leading stores in several countries out of management difficulties or operational downturns, demonstrating solid business acumen, a pragmatic management style, and tenacious problem-solving perseverance.
Mr. LI possesses over 18 years of extensive experience in the catering industry. He joined Haidilao International in November 2007. He was responsible for the operation and management of the Haidilao restaurants in Japan, South Korea, Thailand and Taiwan, China from May 2021 to March 2022 and was further appointed as the chief operating officer (Chinese mainland) from March 2022 to October 2022. Mr. LI also acted as an executive director of Haidilao International from August 2021 to September 2022.
Mr. LI completed the MBA program held by National Chengchi University (台灣政治大學) in Taiwan in October 2017.
Ms. LI Lu was appointed as Joint Company Secretary and Chief Financial Officer on September 2, 2026. Prior to the appointment, Ms. LI served as the Deputy Chief Financial Officer of the Company. She has over 13 years of experience in financial management and control.
Ms. LI rejoined Haidilao International Group in November 2021 as the financial manager of overseas business, where she was responsible for financial management and accounting for the non-Chinese Mainland region. From December 2019 to October 2021, Ms. Li served as the deputy general manager and finance director of Honghuotai Network Technology Co., Ltd., where she was responsible for financial management and corporate operations and management. From July 2018 to December 2019, she served as a financial analysis manager of Haihongda (Beijing) Catering Management Co., Ltd. From April 2016 to April 2018, she worked as a financial analyst at Amazon (CHINA) Holding Company Limited, where she was principally responsible for financial operations and forecasting analysis. From August 2013 to April 2016, she worked at Mars Foods (China) Co., Ltd., with her last position being a concur functional expert, where she was principally responsible for accounting and participating in the construction of the business process system.
Ms. LI obtained the Master of Accounting from Macquarie University in Australia in 2013.