David Ing is a business architect and marketing scientist with IBM Software Group, in the Industry Business Value Assessments team of Industry Solution Sales (North America). In 2006, he transitioned from a 12-year career as a senior managing consultant with IBM Global Business Services (formerly known as IBM Business Consulting Services, IBM Business Innovation Services and IBM Consulting Group).
For 2006-2008, he is a senior researcher on the Rendez research project in Finland, investigating business innovation.
He is also the vice-president of communications and systems education for the International Society for the Systems Sciences , as well as chair of the Special Integration Group on Systems Applications in Business and Industry. Related to this interest, he is co-founder of a smaller group of researchers known as the Systemic Business Community .
David is also an itinerant scholar with the Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management , where he teaches and is completing his Ph.D. He was a co-founder of the Canadian Centre for Marketing Information Technologies at the University of Toronto, and was author and an adjunct lecturer on a course on Marketing Information Technologies in the early 1990s.
He was granted a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Trinity College at the University of Toronto , and a Master of Management degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University . He continued doctoral studies into Business Strategy at University of British Columbia Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration , before leaving to join IBM.
Despite travelling extensively throughout his career, David has continually resided in Toronto for more than two decades.






