Bill Cummings has been employed in sales and marketing positions with Vick Chemical Company (Vaporub, etc.). He founded Cummings Properties and built/restored dozens of large & very large commercial structures. Cummings Properties provides business homes for more than 2,000 MA businesses & organizations. He has served 10 years as a charter trustee of Tufts and is a former overseer of Tufts Medical School & Director of Winchester Hospital. He was named 1998 Real Estate Entrepreneur of the Year for New England by Ernst & Young, LLP. He was also awarded Tufts Distinguished Service Award "for service to Tufts, his community, and his profession." He has been recognized as one of the 50 Most Influential Bostonians by the Boston Business Journal.