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David McIninch on the TechTO stage

David McIninch

General Manager, Soundmouse

Music TechNew YorkOn TechTO stages since 2019

David McIninch runs Soundmouse, the music cue sheet platform owned by BMI, a role he took in June 2026. He was living in Toronto and serving as SVP of strategy and marketing for Fiserv's bank solutions business when April Dunford interviewed him on stage at TechTO in 2019, and was earlier chief revenue officer at Acquisio.

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First seen on the TechTO stage in 2019. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about David

In their words

a lot of bad positioning is really rooted in how everybody internally even has traditionally thought about the thing

TechTO, Jun 2019 · watch at 8:06

take care of the people the products and the profits in that order

TechTO, Jun 2019 · watch at 8:23

my personal belief is that marketing is business strategy and there's no way to separate those

TechTO, Jun 2019 · watch at 9:50
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Quick answers

What does David McIninch do now?

He is general manager of Soundmouse, the music cue sheet platform BMI acquired, based in New York and reporting to BMI's president and COO. The appointment was announced in June 2026.

What did he tell TechTO about positioning?

That bad positioning is usually rooted in how a company has always thought about itself internally, so repositioning starts with untethering from that history. He was describing Fiserv, a mainframe-era banking supplier facing fintech disruption.

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