Cummings Properties Inc.

Dennis Clarke grew up in Winchester and graduated from Winchester High School, and then Harvard University in 1990. He served as a licensed commercial insurance broker for a subsidiary of London-based Jardine-Matheson, and then as a marketing coordinator for Gordon Brothers Partners, Inc. In 1992 he became general manager of a small newspaper chain, Community Weeklies, Inc., which was under Cummings Properties' former ownership. In 1996 Clarke left the Fidelity organization, which purchased the newspaper group, and returned to Cummings Properties, LLC as its operations manager. He became vice president-operations in November 1996 and co-president in 1999. He became president and chief executive officer in November 2004. Clarke is actively involved in both the Woburn and Winchester communities as a past director of Winchester Chamber of Commerce, director of Woburn Business Association, trustee of Cummings Foundation, and a corporator of Winchester Hospital. He is married to Alicia (Angeles), also a Winchester native, and they have three young sons and one young daughter. A former athlete, Clarke was a New England Golden Gloves boxing champion and a Boston Globe Football All-Scholastic designee.

John Wiseman s first career with the company actually began in the Grounds Department while he was a Winchester High School student in 1981, and continued through his years at Wesleyan University. There he was a member of the varsity crew for three years before graduating with a B.A. degree in Psychology in 1986. Subsequently, he earned an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. His prior work experience includes several years running a real estate development company in northern New Hampshire and as the New England regional manager for a national specialty property management company. Wiseman rejoined Cummings Properties in 1996 as division manager in Beverly, where he was heavily involved in the $63 million transformation of the former United Shoe Machinery Corporation s factory into the highly successful 2 million square foot Cummings Center. In 1999, Wiseman became operations manager for Cummings' Suburban Division where he was responsible for the property management and tenant retention of the suburban portfolio. In April 2000, Wiseman was promoted to leasing manager, overseeing leasing activity for the company s 8 million square foot portfolio. In July of 2002, Wiseman was promoted to vice president, leasing. Wiseman is on the Board of Directors of Middlesex Federal Savings Bank. He is also a member of CoreNet Global and the Economic Development Committee of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP). Wiseman, his wife and their four children reside in Winchester. An avid runner, he competes in triathlons and marathons. Wiseman, a licensed EMT, also teaches CPR and first aid.

Bob Venezia grew up in Woburn and graduated from Woburn High School and then the Northeast School of Industrial Technology. After eight years with the commonwealth of Massachusetts' electrical staff, he joined what was then a very young Cummings Industrial Centers in 1979, when the company owned only 10 buildings, becoming general field manager in November 2001. In October 2005, Venezia became vice president-construction. Bob directs all aspects of Cummings Properties' construction division which maintains the company's now eight million square foot portfolio, and serves as general contractor for all Cummings construction projects. His highly accomplished group consists of more than 180 full-time staff members, representing the spectrum of construction disciplines including carpenters, electricians, masons, plumbers, welders and mechanics. Its largest single project completed to date was the $63 million redevelopment of the United Shoe Machinery Corporation's former Beverly, MA headquarters into a two million square foot, national award-winning office and research park. Bob and his wife Terri reside in Billerica and have four adult sons. At age 21, son Danny followed in his father's footsteps, except that he became the 2nd youngest person ever to receive an electrician's license in Massachusetts. Always active in his community, Bob coached Billerica youth soccer and football for many years and is a long-time member of the Billerica Elks Lodge.

A native of New York City, Stephen J. Drohosky earned a Bachelors degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1988, where he studied economics and ran hurdles with the Varsity Track & Field Team. After college, he spent two years learning the commercial banking industry with Marine Midland Bank (now HSBC). Later, he earned a law degree, with honors, from Albany Law School/Union University in Albany, New York. In the Boston area, his law practice focused on corporate law, commercial litigation, debtor and creditor rights and bankruptcy. Drohosky came to Cummings Properties in 1997 as Litigation Counsel and handled all of the company's litigation matters for several years. Thereafter, he took his business and legal experience to the role of Operations Manager at Cummings where he oversaw the firm's Core Division, which handles all tenant matters for Cummings' Woburn-based clients. From there, Drohosky was promoted to Director of Operations and in that role was responsible for all tenant matters, client relationships and leases in all 70 Cummings' buildings, excluding only Cummings Center. Effective October 1, 2005, Drohosky was appointed vice president of Cummings Properties and general manager of Cummings Center where he is responsible for all daily operations at Cummings' largest facility. Drohosky is an avid cyclist, skier and outdoorsman. He resides in rural Boxford, Massachusetts with his wife, Sandy, and their two daughters, where he coaches both daughters' soccer teams.

Bill Cummings is a former overseer of Tufts Medical School, director of Winchester Hospital, and founder and former publisher of three community newspapers - the Woburn Advocate, Stoneham Sun and Winchester Town Crier. Cummings is also a trustee emeritus of Tufts University, and was chairman of Tufts' property-holding corporation (Walnut Hill Properties), as well as a bank director, and elected member and chairman of the Winchester Planning Board. Other outside activities include many philanthropic involvements, and several decades as a director and honorary director of Woburn Boys and Girls Club, Inc. In 1998 Cummings was named 1998 Real Estate Entrepreneur of the Year for New England by Ernst & Young, LLP. He was also awarded Tufts University's Distinguished Service Award "for service to Tufts, his community and his profession." His firm's restoration of the historic United Shoe Machinery Corp. complex in Beverly, Massachusetts was the subject of a very laudatory October 2, 1997 feature story in The Wall Street Journal by Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable. Cummings was awarded the degree of Doctor of Public Service, honoris causa by Tufts University in May, 2006.

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Susan F. Brand, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, has resided in the greater Boston area since completing her undergraduate studies at Bryn Mawr College and University of Michigan in 1972. She received her law degree from Northeastern University School of Law and has been a practicing attorney for more than 25 years, and has been with Cummings Properties since 1989. Before joining Cummings Properties, LLC, Brand was a partner in a Boston law firm with a general, business-oriented practice. Prior to that she served as an assistant Massachusetts attorney general and as general counsel to a Harvard Medical School-based health law project involved in health care financing issues. Brand's community activities have most recently included eight years as a director of the Greater Boston Food Bank, including two terms as its president, and nine years as a board member and secretary of New Horizons at Choate, LLC. She is also a former director and president of Fenway Community Health Center, and trustee and secretary of the 100 plus unit condominium where she lives in Cambridge. Additionally, she is a recent past president of Fourth Eastern Middlesex Bar Association.