Dave W. Cummings

Mr. Cummings is an experienced executive with an extensive background in digital, technical, engineering, operations and commercial leadership, building this career in numerous international roles. Currently, Mr. Cummings is the Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Officer for Finning International, the world’s largest international Caterpillar Equipment dealership headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. At Finning, as well as leading the global technology, operations excellence, marketing and pricing teams, Mr. Cummings has been the architect behind the creation of the new Finning Digital division. While with Finning, Mr. Cummings also spent almost three years living in Chile supporting the business while the company implemented an end-to-end ERP system and the corporate digital strategies across all of its South American businesses. Mr. Cummings has been an active participant in audit committee matters at Finning, is a member of the management team that oversees the financial health of the business, and has had financial accountability in all of his commercial roles throughout his career. Both at Finning and with prior companies, Mr. Cummings has significantly advanced the companies’ cyber security capabilities and benchmarked performance in the protection of company data and assets. Prior to joining Finning, Mr. Cummings held C suite and Technology leadership positions at Maxum Petroleum in Connecticut, USA, North America’s largest fuels and lubricants distribution company, and Univar in Seattle, Washington, an $11bn global industrial chemical distributor.

Mr. Cummings began his career in the oil and gas industry and spent 23 years with DuPont, then ConocoPhillips. In this time frame he has had an international career living and holding operations and engineering roles in the Netherlands, England, Canada and Norway and commercial P&L roles in Scotland and the USA. While with ConocoPhillips, Mr. Cummings has also had numerous assignments in technology, sales and marketing, commercial, engineering and operations with extensive assignment time spent in Indonesia, Dubai and Australia, among other countries. This multi-national and multi-disciplined career positions Mr. Cummings to bring a very diverse perspective to the ATS Board. Mr. Cummings is a serving member of the board of directors of BCTech, a western Canada government-partnered not-for-profit organization dedicated to growing and scaling homegrown Canadian technology startups. Mr. Cummings was educated in the United Kingdom and earned a BS (Honours) in Business Administration and an MBA in Business Management.