He is the CEO of the Tapscott Group and the co-founder and Executive Chairman of the Blockchain Research Institute.

[2] Tapscott has authored or co-authored sixteen books on the application of technology in business and society.

He is the former Chancellor of his alma mater Trent University, and is currently an adjunct professor of Technology and Operations Management at INSEAD.

[3] Tapscott was born in Toronto and lived as a teen in Orillia, Ontario,[4] where he was a part of the first graduating class of Park Street Collegiate Institute.

While earning this degree at the University of Alberta, he ran for mayor of Edmonton in the 1977 municipal election on behalf of the Revolutionary Workers' League.