David Cushman

David Cushman is a digital strategy and innovation pioneer with executive experience in start-up, scale-up, and large matrixed organizations. He has a rare combination of skills, including tech nous, analytics, and cross-industry experience, making him an expert in digital strategy advisory and CX advisory. Furthermore, David has co-founded a start-up digital consultancy and has previously held roles such as General Manager in CX-data platform scale-up and Digital Development Director at UK's fastest-growing media business.

David has written a globally-published business book called The 10 Principles of Open Business (Palgrave Macmillan 2014) and has designed, innovated, and built over 30 products, services, business models, GTM, and strategies. He excels in digital strategy and transformation, innovation and product, customer experience advisory, digital marketing communications strategy and planning, growth and capability building, and education.

David earned a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology & Philosophy with a 2:1 from the University of Essex and has studied at Yale University and The Open University. He currently serves as the Practice Leader for Emerging Technology at HFS Research and has also worked in leadership roles at Cognizant, The Social Partners, and Bauer Media Group – UK.