The board of directors of Johnson Electric Holdings Limited announced that David Alan Rosenthal has been appointed as an Independent Non- Executive Director and a member of the Remuneration Committee of the Company with effect from 6 March 2024. Mr. Rosenthal is a software engineer and entrepreneur who has founded, built, and led businesses in the fields of data analytics and database management. In 2009, he co-founded and served as CEO of FoundationDB, a distributed key-value data storage business that provided innovative software tools and database infrastructure techology to cloud services companies.

FoundationDB's technology was acquired by Apple Inc. in 2015 and Mr. Rosenthal subsequently served as Senior Director in Apple's Special Projects Group until 2021. Prior to co-founding FoundationDB, Mr. Rosenthal held engineering and technology leadership positions in both start-up and established software businesses in North America, including Omniture, Visual Sciences Inc., and Singularity Software. He received a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Mr. Rosenthal, aged 43, is currently an Advisor to Pebble Mobility Inc., a California-based electric recreational vehicle start-up business. Mr. Rosenthal has not held any directorship in any listed public companies in Hong Kong or overseas in the last three years. Mr. Rosenthal does not hold any other position with the Company and its subsidiaries and he does not have any relationship with any directors, senior management, substantial shareholders or controlling shareholders of the Company.