Celebrate the A100, the most impactful Asian Pacific Leaders.

Don Liu & Prat Vemana

Chief Legal and Compliance Officer & Executive Vice President and Chief Digital and Product Officer, Target

DON LIU
Don H. Liu is Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Compliance Officer and Corporate Secretary for Target. In this role, reporting directly to Target’s chairman and CEO, he oversees Target’s legal, compliance and corporate governance matters for Target.

Prior to joining Target, Mr. Liu was executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of Xerox Corporation. He also held in-house legal leadership roles at Toll Brothers, IKON Office Solutions and Aetna U.S. Healthcare. He began his career in private practice, specializing in securities and mergers and acquisitions.

He currently serves on boards for Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc. and Haverford College. He is a co-founder and board member of the Alliance for Asian American Justice, a nonprofit organization offering pro bono legal services to victims of anti-Asian hate. He also serves as an executive mentor for the ExCo Group and is a member of the American Law Institute and the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association.

Mr. Liu is a former board member of MoreBank (an ethnic community bank serving the Asian American community); former chairman of the board of directors of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association; former vice chair of the Asian American Diversity Advisory Council; former executive committee member of the Joint Diversity Council, Comcast Corporation; former board member of Association of Corporate Counsel; and former chair of the In-House Counsel Committee of National Asian Pacific American Bar Association.

Mr. Liu and his family emigrated from Korea to the U.S. in 1972. He is a graduate of Haverford College, with Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa honors, and Columbia University School of Law, as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.

PRAT VEMANA
Prat Vemana is Executive Vice President, Chief Digital and Product Officer for Target and a member of its leadership team. He oversees Target’s digital business, including site merchandising, user experience, digital operations and product; and Target+, the retailer’s growing online third-party marketplace. Additionally, he provides key support for Target’s industry-leading product teams across the company by bringing a holistic view to the retailer’s overall product strategy.

Prat joined Target in 2022 from Kaiser Permanente, where he served as senior vice president and chief digital officer and led its enterprise product management and experience teams. During his time at the company, he accelerated its digital strategy by modernizing its platforms for greater speed and agility. His work included critical consumer experience enhancements like the redesign of the company’s mobile app and the launch of same-day home delivery for its pharmacy business. Prior to joining Kaiser Permanente, Vemana held digital leadership positions at The Home Depot and Staples.

Prat holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering from the University of Madras and a master’s in business administration in global leadership and innovation from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He serves on the board of directors for Frontier Communications.