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VenHub Appoints Former bp Senior Executive, Tarang Sethia, Executive Vice President, Product & Technology, Bolstering Autonomous Retail Technology Leadership Position
LAS VEGAS, Feb. 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VenHub Global, Inc. (NASDAQ: VHUB) (“VenHub” or the “Company”), a leader in fully autonomous Smart Store
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[{"type":"text","content":"LAS VEGAS, Feb. 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VenHub Global, Inc. (NASDAQ: VHUB) (“VenHub” or the “Company”), a leader in fully autonomous Smart Store technology, today highlighted a recent addition to the senior management team that is helping to accelerate the Company’s technology innovation efforts focused on delivering a leading autonomous retail solution for communities and consumers. Tarang Sethia has been appointed Executive Vice President of Product & Technology, with primary responsibility for VenHub’s product vision, platform, and operating model as the Company scales its autonomous retail business. His focus includes building customer-back, scalable product and technology systems that help accelerate the Company’s Smart Store growth, improve unit economics, and enable reliable execution at scale. He reports directly to VenHub Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Shahan Ohanessian. “From our first concept design to the initial Smart Stores available today in multiple communities, we have been committed to continuous technology innovation and advancements that drive consistently improving performance and create more value for store operators and the customers they serve,” said Ohanessian. “Tarang brings to VenHub significant expertise and skill sets in leading product development teams that have helped transform global legacy retail operations into complex technology-driven enterprises. His leadership of our technology development will help drive continuous innovation for our Smart Stores and further enhance the value we provide to operators and consumers. I am excited to welcome him to the VenHub team as we continue to move quickly on our technology road map to make autonomous retail trusted infrastructure, not an experiment.” Across his career, Sethia has been recognized for his ability to deeply understand customer and business needs and translate them into customer-obsessed, digital products that are commercially viable and designed to scale. He brings to VenHub more than 20 years of experience building and leading high-performing product and technology organizations, including executive leadership roles at bp and 7-Eleven, where he led retail technology transformations. At bp, he helped build a Retail Operating System–as–a–Service, including the Earnify ecosystem, enabling independent retailers to modernize loyalty,...