Tropical Battery Company Limited Appoints Director of Artificial Intelligence & Analytics to Senior Leadership Team

• Tropical Battery Company Limited (TROPICAL) has appointed Omaro Hutchinson to its Senior Leadership Team as the Director of Artificial Intelligence, Analytics & Strategic Projects, effective June 2026.
• He is tasked with transforming Tropical Battery into a genuinely AI-native company across all five of its operating entities, spanning Jamaica, California, and the Dominican Republic, focusing on measurable operational outcomes rather than adopting technology for its own sake.
• His role encompasses seven distinct cross-border workstreams, including intelligent automation, data analytics, AI-assisted sales, digital infrastructure, and the formalised build-out of the Group's Power BI reporting architecture.
• The appointment is positioned as a capability-augmentation strategy rather than a cost-cutting measure, with management explicitly stating that no roles will be eliminated as a result of integrating these new AI frameworks.
• For Tropical, this means a concerted push to lower the cost of sales and administrative expenses through technology. If executed properly, the centralised AI framework acts as an operational multiplier, allowing the Group to scale its revenues internationally without a corresponding, linear spike in administrative and structural expenses.
• Tropical’s stock price has declined by 15.7% since the start of the year to close at $1.34 on Wednesday, June 17, 2026. At this level, the stock trades at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 10.61x, which is below the Main Market Energy, Industrials and Materials Sector average of 25.0x.

(Sources: JSE)