David Coletto is the founder and chief executive at Abacus Data, a full-service marketing and public opinion research agency with offices in Toronto and Ottawa, founded in 2010. He earned a PhD in political science from the University of Calgary in 2010, and is an adjunct professor at Carleton University where he teaches a class on polling and public opinion in the Masters of Political Management Program.

He is the host and producer of inFocus with David Coletto, a podcast that explores the intersection of public opinion, politics, public policy, and consumer behaviour. Coletto is a board member of the Ottawa Board of Trade and the Ottawa Riverkeeper, is on the advisory committee for the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, and is a member of the policy committee for Imagine Canada.