Target Loses a Key Digital Executive Behind Cartwheel App

A Target Corp. executive who helped birth one of the Minneapolis-based retailer’s most celebrated digital innovations is leaving the company. Alan Wizemann, vice president of mobile and Target.com, played an instrumental role in launching Cartwheel, the retailer’s mobile coupon app that has rung up more than $1 billion in sales since it rolled out two years ago. Cartwheel is one of the most successful retail apps in the market and has been held up within the company as an example of what Target needs to do to better to compete with the likes of Amazon.com.