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Yongfang "Fayer" Yao (born 1970) is a Chinese technology entrepreneur and special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) sponsor who currently serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Wintergreen Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: WTG), a Cayman Islands-incorporated blank check company headquartered in Tongzhou, Beijing, China. He has held these roles since March 3, 2025, guiding the company through its formation, SEC registration, and public listing. Wintergreen priced its initial public offering of 5,000,000 units at $10.00 per unit on May 28, 2025, with trading commencing on the Nasdaq Capital Market on May 29, 2025 under the symbol WTGUU. The IPO ultimately raised approximately $55.95 million in proceeds (including over-allotment), with D. Boral Capital LLC serving as sole book-running manager and the trust holding 100.3% cash. Yao owns approximately 1,652,625 shares, representing roughly 25.25% of the company, and is identified in SEC filings as both a director and a ten-percent owner.
Beyond his SPAC leadership, Yao is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Shenzhen Yihaiyun Technology, a virtual education company based in China. This operating-company background informs Wintergreen's stated acquisition strategy, which targets businesses in the technology, media, and telecommunications sectors with operations or prospective operations in the Asia Pacific region, including Greater China, that possess advanced and highly differentiated solutions. Under Yao's direction, Wintergreen announced a definitive business combination with target company KIKA on November 18, 2025, a technology-sector transaction focused on Asia, marking the SPAC's progression from its IPO phase into its deal execution stage. The company's board includes Chief Financial Officer and Director Bingzhao Tan and independent directors Caihong Chen, Ru Ding, and Xiangxiang Wei.
Yao's professional profile reflects a China-based executive bridging the domestic education technology sector and U.S. capital markets. His mailing address is listed as Beijing, and Wintergreen's registered office is located at Room 8326, Block B, Hongxiang Cultural & Creative Industrial Park, 90 Jiukeshu West Road, Tongzhou, Beijing. Public compensation records for his Wintergreen role do not disclose a specific salary figure. While detailed information about his earlier career history, educational background, and prior transactions is not available in the sourced materials, his current track record centers on successfully launching a Nasdaq-listed SPAC and advancing it toward a business combination within months of its IPO, positioning him as an active deal sponsor in the cross-border China-Asia Pacific technology space.
Founded Shenzhen Yihaiyun Technology Co., Ltd. (metaverse virtual education, VR/AR teaching hardware) in January 2019 and serves as its CEO; previously general manager of the independent business division at Shenzhen Yutaitong Electronic Technology and of the VR division at Shenzhen Magic Eye Technology. Author of "Virtual Reality Basics and Practice" (2018).
[Origin not recorded. Carried over from /people/yongfang-fayer-yao, a second record for the same person.]
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