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YY Group (NASDAQ: YYGH) Appoints Arros AI Co-Founder Kai Yang as Chief AI Scientist to Accelerate AI-Powered Workforce Platform Development
Appointment Deepens the Company's AI Capabilities as It Scales Toward Its FY2026 US$103 Million to US$110 Million Revenue TargetsSINGAPORE, March 24, 2026
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[{"type":"text","content":"Appointment Deepens the Company's AI Capabilities as It Scales Toward Its FY2026 US$103 Million to US$110 Million Revenue TargetsSINGAPORE, March 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- YY Group Holding Limited (NASDAQ: YYGH) (\"YY Group\" or the \"Company\"), a global leader in on-demand workforce solutions and integrated facilities management (IFM), today announced the appointment of Mr. Kai Yang as Chief AI Scientist, effective April 1, 2026. In this newly created role, Mr. Yang will lead the development and deployment of AI-powered capabilities across the Company's YY Circle workforce platform as YY Group advances its ambition to build the leading AI-powered hospitality workforce platform globally.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nMr. Yang is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Arros AI, where he developed an AI-powered recruiting system that reduced recruiter workloads by approximately 80%. Arros AI is a member of the NVIDIA Inception program and recently entered into a strategic technology partnership with YY Group to integrate AI-powered candidate screening and interviewing capabilities into the YY Circle platform. Prior to co-founding Arros AI, Mr. Yang founded Moyin Tech Inc. in Beijing, which was accepted into Y Combinator China (now MiraclePlus), where it raised approximately US$3 million in funding.Mr. Yang holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics and statistics from the University of Toronto and a master's degree in statistics from Harvard University. His research background is rooted in the University of Toronto's AI ecosystem, where his work in deep learning and natural language processing was shaped by the pioneering research of Professor Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist widely regarded as the \"Godfather of AI.\"Mike Fu, CEO of YY Group, commented, \"Building on our partnership with Arros AI, Kai Yang's appointment as Chief AI Scientist marks an important step in our journey to build the world's leading AI-powered hospitality workforce platform. His deep expertise in AI-driven recruiting technology – including building a system that reduced recruiter workloads by 80% – combined with his entrepreneurial track record, uniquely positions him to accelerate the integration of AI across our YY Circle platform. As we scale toward our FY2026 revenue targets of US$103 million to US$110 million, embedding AI into our c...