David Cancel is an American entrepreneur, investor, and founder of several software companies.
He is the CEO and founder of Drift, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company which creates messaging software for businesses.
Cancel attended Queens College and dropped out before attaining a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Accounting.
[6] HubSpot CEO and co-founder Brian Halligan has called Cancel a “visionary product development leader” and at the time of the Performable acquisition, said “we now have the best product development team in B2B software.”[7][8] Prior to Performable, Cancel was the co-founder and CTO of Lookery,[9] the founder and CTO of Compete.com, which was acquired by WPP for $150 million, and the CTO of BuyerZone, which was acquired by Reed Elsevier.
[10][11] Cancel is also the founder of Ghostery, a global marketing technology company that provides online transparency and control to individuals and businesses.