Dani Cushion is the Chief Marketing Officer at Cardlytics (NASDAQ: CDLX), a purchase intelligence platform that presents advertising within banks’ secure digital channels. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, with offices in London, New York, San Francisco, and Visakhapatnam.
Founded in 2008, Cardlytics partners with top financial institutions around the world to help marketers understand how and where consumers spend money. By applying advanced analytics to a massive aggregation of purchase data, Cardlytics can measure the impact of spend decisions and help companies better target and personalize their marketing campaigns for optimal performance.
With a focus on driving significant company growth, Dani has built out a best-in-class global marketing and communications team at Cardlytics, and helped the company go public with the first tech IPO of 2018. Previously, she was SVP marketing and communications at Millennial Media, where she saw the company through its IPO and numerous acquisitions.
She began her career in sports marketing at Major League Soccer, ISL, Millsport/The Marketing Arm, and SiriusXM. Dani currently sits on the Board of Directors for not-for-profit organization Women in Technology, a 25-year-old organization whose mission is to help girls and women excel in STEAM from the classroom to the boardroom.
Dani graduated from Lehigh University with a Marketing major, and minors in Philosophy and Economics. She started every game for the women’s soccer team while there and captained the squad her junior and senior years. Dani lives in Atlanta with her husband, three children, and a bunch of crazy pets.