A Rhode Island native, Ernest Agresti graduated in 1987 from Brown University with a degree in Business Economics and Urban Studies. He has been active in real estate since graduating and held management positions with two northern New England development and management firms prior to joining Cummings Properties in 1991.

He began his career at Cummings Properties as a property manager, was promoted to division manager in 1996 and operations manager of the core division in 1998. In September 1999 he was appointed director of operations and in July 2002, Ernest was promoted to vice president - operations where he oversaw the majority of the company’s existing client relationships and property management activities. Since May 2007, Ernest has served as vice president - administration, the company's most senior administrative executive, managing the internal workings of the company and he has primary responsibility for the sign-off and execution of all commercial lease transactions and company payables.

Currently a member of the Swampscott Yacht Club, Ernest is an avid sailor and snow skier. He has been racing sailboats since he was 10 years old and has served on the Friends of Swampscott Sailing Board of Directors, a non-profit organization that promotes youth sailing. He is a former Big Brother, member of the Community Substance Abuse Center's Community Advisory Committee, a competitive squash player and youth soccer coach. He and his wife, Jennifer, live in Swampscott with their sons, Nicholas and Joseph, and twin daughters, Samantha and Michela.

Working with three division managers, Greg Ahearn began supervising all of Cummings Properties' maintenance and construction activities in September 2007. Greg is a licensed master plumber, who has been with the Firm since 1992.

As field superintendent, Greg took over direct line responsibility for more than 300 regular full-time employees with a vast array of maintenance, construction, and custodial skills. He is also indirectly responsible for the work of hundreds of subcontractor employees who work daily in and around the Company's more than 9 million square feet of commercial buildings in the northern and western suburbs of Boston.

A longtime Woburnite and graduate of Woburn High School, Greg and his wife, Kris, have two school-aged sons, Kyle and Ethan. In their spare time, the Ahearns especially enjoy trips to York, Maine, where Greg spends as much time as possible on their boat, and prides himself on his many fishing talents.

A 1998 graduate of Colby College, Eric Anderson joined Cummings Properties in 1999. He began at Cummings Center in Beverly as an associate property manager and has since served in a variety of positions of increasing responsibility.

As Vice President-Leasing, Eric oversees all leasing activity for the Company's more than 9 million square foot portfolio of office, research, medical, laboratory, and flex space in 10 communities surrounding Boston, excluding only Cummings Center in Beverly.

This portfolio includes Cummings' largest construction project, TradeCenter 128, now underway in Woburn. Cummings is currently building a 550,000 square foot office building and 900-car parking garage, directly adjacent to Routes 128 and Interstate 95. The first phase of the building is expected to be occupied in January 2008 by Middlesex County Superior Court, which will move from Cambridge to TradeCenter 128 in early 2008.

In addition to his work at Cummings Properties, Anderson is a Veteran, having served on active duty with the United States Marine Corps, most recently in Iraq. He is a member of the Board of Overseers at Tufts University's School of Veterinary Medicine, and the founder of Massachusetts Association of Business Incubators. He is also vice president and treasurer of New Horizons at Marlborough, a not-for-profit independent and assisted living facility for seniors.

Eric and his wife Kari live in Westford, Massachusetts, and are expecting their first child in January.

Born in 1968, 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 local newspaper chain, Community Weeklies, Inc., which was under Cummings Properties' former ownership.

In 1996 Dennis 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 was elected president and chief executive officer in November 2004.

Dennis has been actively involved in both the Woburn and Winchester communities as a 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, Dennis was a New England Golden Gloves boxing champion and a Boston Globe Football All-Scholastic designee.

A native of New York City, Stephen J. Drohosky earned a Bachelors degree from 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. Stephen 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, Stephen 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, Stephen was appointed vice president of Cummings Properties and general manager of the 2 million square foot Cummings Center Office and Research Park in Beverly, Massachusetts. He is responsible for all daily operations at Cummings' largest facility.

Stephen 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 Grant grew up in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and received his undergraduate degree in accounting in 1972 and masters in accounting in 1977 from Bentley College. He also attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 1989. Prior to joining Cummings Properties in May 1998, Bill held several senior management positions at Tweeter, etc. from 1982 to 1989, and was Chief Financial Officer at Rich's department stores from 1989 to 1998.

Previously active in town youth sports, Bill was a member of the executive committee of the Merrimack Valley Pirates Swim Team, and also served as that organization's treasurer for three years. Currently Bill resides in Andover with his wife, Kathy, of 24 years. They have two adult children, Tracie and Keith.

Michael H. Pascavage, AIA, joined what was then Cummings Industrial Centers in 1983. Since he has been involved in the evolution of the company from an industrial real estate developer into the multi-disciplinary design/build Cummings Properties, LLC. The firm currently leases and manages more than 9 million square feet of first-class commercial office and lab space in 10 communities north and west of Boston. Pascavage directs all of Cummings Properties' design, purchasing, construction and development efforts.

He and his very seasoned team of architects, engineers and construction professionals have designed and built a wide variety of projects including pilot plants, chemistry labs, biochemistry labs, GMP facilities, class 100 through class 100,000 clean rooms and animal facilities. Clients are as diverse as single-person start-ups and multibillion dollar international biotech leaders, and most every combination in between.

A native of Pennsylvania, Michael is a registered architect with both bachelors and masters of architecture degrees from University of Pennsylvania. Additionally, he earned an MBA from Northeastern University. He previously was a principal in his own design/build firm in Philadelphia, and worked extensively with ADD, Inc. architects, in both Cambridge and Washington, D.C. Michael is an avid runner and cyclist, and lives in Cambridge with his wife Debby, with whom he has two adult children.

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, John 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, John was promoted to leasing manager, overseeing leasing activity for the company’s then 8 million square foot portfolio. In July of 2002, John was promoted to vice president, leasing. After seven years of leading the company's leasing efforts John assumed the role of vice-president operations in June 2007.

John is on the Board of Directors of Middlesex Federal Savings Bank, and is a member of Mass Biotech Council (MBC) and the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP). An avid runner, he competes in triathlons and marathons, and also teaches CPR and first aid as a licensed EMT. John, his wife and their four children live in Winchester, MA.

A long-time Winchester resident, Craig J. Ziady was born and raised in Andover, Massachusetts, where he lived until graduating from Bates College in 1989 with honors in English. Following apprenticeships with the United States Attorney's Office and the United States Army Corps of Engineers, and a summer program in which he taught public speaking and rhetoric at New College, Oxford University, Craig received his law degree, cum laude, from Boston College Law School in 1993.

He practiced for three years in a small Boston law firm, then joined Riemer & Braunstein, LLP, a 75-lawyer firm based in Boston, where he was a senior partner in the firm's litigation department, specializing in real estate and environmental matters. While there, Craig obtained extensive trial and appellate experience and was counsel in numerous reported decisions. He was trial counsel in a five-week jury trial on behalf of a landowner who sustained permanent property damage by contamination, resulting in a $16.5 million verdict (the second highest reported verdict that year, as reported in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly).

After joining Cummings Properties as deputy general counsel, Craig became general counsel in 2007. He is a member of the Boston, Massachusetts, and American Bar Associations, as well as the Licensed Site Professional Association. His bar admissions include Massachusetts, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the United States Court of Appeals for the First and Third Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court.

Craig and his wife, Joan, who is also an attorney, are actively involved with their four children in Winchester's youth sports programs, where he serves as a baseball and ice hockey coach. He is also president of the Alumni Association and a trustee at Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts.