Company: CDLX
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001666071-25-000046
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Company: Cardlytics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 57
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 Role of Management
In discharging its responsibilities, the Compensation Committee works with members of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer. Our management assists the Compensation Committee by providing information on corporate and individual performance, market compensation data, and management's perspective on compensation matters. The Compensation Committee solicits and reviews our Chief Executive Officer's proposals with respect to program structures, as well as our Chief Executive Officer's recommendations for adjustments to annual cash compensation, long-term incentive compensation opportunities and other compensation-related matters for our Named Executive Officers (except with respect to his own compensation) based on our Chief Executive Officer's evaluation of their performance for the prior year.

At the beginning of each year, our Chief Executive Officer reviews the performance of our other Named Executive Officers based on such individual's level of success in accomplishing the business objectives established for him or her for the prior year and his or her overall performance during that year, and then shares these evaluations with, and makes recommendations to, the Compensation Committee for each element of compensation as described above. The annual business objectives for each Named Executive Officer are developed through mutual discussion and agreement between our Chief Executive Officer and the Named Executive Officers.

The Compensation Committee reviews and discusses our Chief Executive Officer's proposals and recommendations and considers them as one factor in determining and approving the compensation of our Named Executive Officers. Our Chief Executive Officer also attends meetings of our Board of Directors and the Compensation Committee at which executive compensation matters are addressed, except with respect to discussions involving our Chief Executive Officer's own compensation.

#### Role of Compensation Consultant
The Compensation Committee engages an external compensation consultant to assist it by providing information, analysis and other advice relating to our executive compensation program and the decisions resulting from its annual executive compensation review. The compensation consultant reports directly to the Compensation Committee and its chair, and serves at the discretion of the Compensation Committee, which reviews the engagement annually.

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From January 2024 to May 2024, the Compensation Committee engaged Compensia, Inc. ("Compensia"), a national independent compensation consultant firm, and since June 2024 the Compensation Committee has engaged Meridian Compensation Partners ("Meridian"), a national independent compensation consulting firm, to serve as its compensation consultant to advise on executive compensation matters, including competitive market pay practices for our Named Executive Officers, and assist with the data analysis and selection of the compensation peer group.

During 2024, Meridian attended the meetings of the Compensation Committee (both with and without management present) as requested and provided various services, including the following: