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MINNEAPOLIS —Target Corp. has strengthened its technology team with two new hires. Tom Kadlec will join the retailer as senior vice president of infrastructure and operations, and will be in charge of efforts to modernize and enhance Target’s technology foundation, according to the company, which said Joel Crabb has been hired to serve as vice president of architecture. He will be responsible for enterprise architecture, agile practices and application program interfaces.
“Tom and Joel bring decades of technology and engineering experience to Target, along with proven track records of building and implementing cutting-edge technologies for retailers,” said chief information officer Mike McNamara. “Adding leaders of this caliber will propel the progress we’re making to strengthen Target’s engineering muscle, enhance our foundational systems and bring new technology innovations to life for our guests.”
Kadlec brings nearly 25 years of global technology experience in retail and finance to his new post. He spent about 17 years at Tesco PLC, where he most recently was group technology director for the UK-based grocer. Before that, Kadlec worked for Tesco in the Czech Republic and Hungary, and led the retailer’s operations and infrastructure team through major transformation and the retiring of many legacy applications. Kadlec comes to Target from Virtual Clarity, a cloud technologies implementation consultancy, where he worked on the transformation of a major U.K. bank.
Crabb comes to Target with more than 20 years of experience as a technology leader and engineer. He joined Target from Best Buy Co., where he most recently served as chief architect and head of digital engineering. Before his five years at Best Buy, Crabb held various technology leadership and engineering posts at companies in the Minneapolis area.
