Steven Cummings

Steven Cummings is President and Chief Executive Officer of Maxwell Cummings & Sons Holdings Limited, which manages the diverse business interests of the Cummings family. He has served on the Board of the Caisse de dép´t et placement du Québec and on the Board of Directors of Via Rail Canada Inc. He serves on the Board of Canadian Jewish News.  In 2006, Mr. Cummings was named a Member of the Order of Canada.

Mr. Cummings is very active in community affairs and has served as President of Federation CJA, Jewish General Hospital Centre Board, Jewish General Hospital Foundation Board, and Co-Chair of its Capital Campaign, served on the Executive Committee of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, and is the founding Chair of the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre and founding Co-Chair of PROMONTREAL, and was Co-Chair of Solomon Schechter Academy Building Development Committee. Mr. Cummings was founding Co-Chair of CIJA (Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy).

Steven Cummings was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1950. He was educated in Montreal and attended Brandeis University in Boston. He is married to Dr. Susan Wisebord and has four children and three grandchildren.