Walmart adds tech veteran to board as it preps for AI era

Walmart adds tech veteran to board as it preps for AI era

Shishir Mehrotra, who co-founded an AI platform and also has experience at YouTube, joins the board ahead of John Furner’s move to CEO.

Walmart stock inches up after-hours on board pick as Barclays, Oppenheimer lift targets

New York, Jan 8, 2026, 18:27 EST — After-hours Walmart Inc shares were up 0.3% at $113.07 in after-hours trading on Thursday after the retailer named Shishir Mehrotra, CEO at Superhuman (formerly Grammarly), to its board. Mehrotra said joining as Walmart “builds for an agentic AI future” — a reference to software agents that can carry out tasks with less human input. Walmart Inc. The board move lands as Wall Street tries to price the next leg fo…