---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-25-018065"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "XWIN"
cik: "0001473334"
company_name: "XMax Inc."
filed_at: "2025-10-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T03:52:43.746239+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Nova LifeStyle expands board to 7, appoints COO Steven Zhao as director

## Summary
- Board increased from 6 to 7 members on Oct 10, 2025; Steven Zhao appointed to fill new vacancy.
- Zhao, 28, has been COO and Corporate Secretary since Oct 7, 2025; also Data Analysis Statistician at subsidiary Diamond Bar Outdoors since June 2025.
- Zhao holds BA in Statistics from Queen's University (Canada) and MA in Statistics from Columbia University.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-25-018065
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: XWIN
- cik: 0001473334
- company_name: XMax Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-10-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1473334/000149315225018065/0001493152-25-018065-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1473334/000149315225018065/form8-k.htm

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