William S Cummings

Cummings Properties, LLC (CPL) currently provides business homes for approximately 1,860 Massachusetts businesses and other organizations. Apart from his role as founder of CPL, Cummings is also founder of Cummings Foundation, Inc., as well as not-for-profit New Horizons assisted living community for 500 residents in Woburn and Marlborough Massachusetts. Today, most of Cummings Properties’ investment portfolio has been donated to Cummings Foundation. Established in 1986, it is now one of the largest charitable foundations in Massachusetts with assets of $500 million. Cummings and his wife, Joyce, spend much of their time working for the foundation. Cummings has served 25 years as a director of the Woburn Boys and Girls Club. Since the early 1990s he has also published three community newspapers, joined boards of directors, and has even been licensed as an auctioneer and a justice of the peace. He is a graduate and trustee emeritus of Tufts University and was an overseer of Tufts School of Medicine.