target in his responsibility includes financial planning and analysis, financial operations, tax .ssurance, investor relations he graduated from the university of wisconsin in 1988. 1996 he earned a masters of business administration degree from the university of minnesota. >> good morning, members of the committee. my name is john mulligan. i'm executive vice president and chief financial officer of target. i appreciate the opportunity to be here today to discuss important issues surrounding data breaches and cyber crime. as you know, target recently experienced a data breach is altering from criminal attack on our systems. to begin, i want to say how deeply sorry we are for the impact this incident has had on our guest, your constituents. we know this breach has shaken their confidence in target and we are determined to work very hard to earn it back. target we take our responsibility to our guest very seriously. his attack has only strengthened our resolve. we will learn from this incident and as a result, we hope to make target and our industry war secure for consumers in the future. i