David Baker Gibson
David Baker Gibson was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, into a family with a long Canadian lineage of English, Scottish, and Irish heritage. After high school he went into banking, thence to financial administration with a major auto-pact firm to run its international export division. He attended McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, receiving an MBA in Organisational Management and International Business. Returning to Ottawa, he became an executive in a defence communications research and engineering firm. Today, he resides in Ottawa with his wife of fifty-six years, the lovely Valerie.