Matt Drewes - Brand Innovators

Matt Drewes

SVP, Restaurant Ad Partnerships, Cardlytics

Matt Drewes is Senior Vice President and Group Head of Restaurant Industry at Cardlytics, a company that helps drive incremental sales using purchase data insights from more than 130 million monthly active users on its native advertising platform. Before joining Cardlytics, Matt held various positions at Darden Restaurants, including SVP of Marketing for Red Lobster and Director of Marketing at Olive Garden. Prior to Darden, Matt worked in various CPG Brand Management positions at Campbell Soup Company and M&M/Mars including a year developing business in Russia. Matt holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Auburn University and an MBA from the Columbia Business School at Columbia University. He’s married with four children and an active volunteer coach at his YMCA.