Mark Cummings

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ABOUT MARK CUMMINGS

POSITION: GENERAL / IN-HOUSE LEGAL COUNSEL EXECUTIVE Extensive background providing proactive strategic legal guidance, serving as a trusted advisor for business and applying legal management best practices. Proven success in creating culturesof balanced risk assessment, accountability and performance excellence to achieve corporate excellence and maximize return on investment. Experience and proven success with small, medium and large businesses, including start-ups where I established legal departments (from scratch) and provided legal and business processes, advice, compliance programs and education to the entire business team. The legal departments that I lead were sales and delivery friendly and had the ability to produce success and resolution on a large volume of a variety of matters. In each role, I successfully assisted the companies in protecting their assets in accordance with approved risk/reward profiles and was a strategic player in the excellent growth and success of the companies.High ethics and integrity combined with influential communication, collaboration and relationship building skills throughout an organization. Particular success in translating complicatedlegal issues into a solutions-focused language for business leaders.Track record of success in handling daily legal issues, establishing processes and policies, and managing the legal affairs of a company, including: Commercial and Technology Transactions (incl. SaaS/PaaS); Advertising Laws and Considerations; Negotiation of Large-Scale Complex Contracts; Regulatory Compliance; Employment Law; Intellectual Property and Licensing Initiatives; Litigation Management; Data Privacy (GDPR); SEC and SOX Compliance; General Corporate Operations; Employment; M&A Due Diligence and Post Merger Integration.