David Ting

David Ting is the CTO of TingThink where he works on technology for IT infrastructures. In 2001 he founded Imprivata and developed the technology behind the OneSign solution used extensively in healthcare. As a director he oversaw the company's evolution from a venture backed startup to a public company and subsequent private acquisition in 2016. David has more than twenty years of experience developing digital identity solutions for government and enterprise environments. A serial entrepreneur, David worked in digital imaging with several venture backed companies as well as running his own software consulting company. At the forefront of new technology, David was responsible at Eastman Kodak's Boston Technology Center for developing the software platform used in digital photography products including Kodak's Photo CD print applications. At Kodak's Atex subsidiary, he managed the development of the first direct to color print system used by US newspapers. David holds B.Eng and M.Eng degrees in Electrical Engineering from McGill University and began his career as a member of the scientific staff at the BNR/INRS Labs in Montreal, a communications research institute operated by Bell-Northern Research, McGill University and the University of Quebec.

In 2016, David was appointed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to the Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force, authorized under the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015. He helped draft the recommendations for securing healthcare in the Cybersecurity Task Force Report submitted to Congress in 2017. David holds twenty-two US patents, with additional pending. He frequently speaks and publishes on authentication and identity management, infrastructure design, secure communications and topics related to healthcare IT resilience. A strong believer in entrepreneurship, David mentors and advises startup groups in the Boston area.