David Slocombe's career in computing began in 1969 while he was a Canadian newspaper reporter. During the next 30 years he developed many applications of computing to journalism and publishing. He was a founder and vice-president of SoftQuad Inc. and was the architect of SoftQuad's first product-line, SoftQuad Publishing Software. He contributed to the early development of DSSSL. Until recently he was a consultant at Tata Infotech Ltd. in Bombay, India. He is currently Chief Technology Officer at Exegenix Research Inc. in Toronto, a company he co-founded in 2001.