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Tim Cummnins
Founder & President, WorldCC, UKTim Cummins is President of World Commerce & Contracting, which he founded as IACCM in 1999, and Executive Director of the Commerce & Contract Management Institute. He came to contracting through corporate finance, automotive exports and aerospace negotiation, before leading the global reengineering of IBM's contracting process. A former Professor at the University of Leeds School of Law, he reframes contracts as support for dynamic relationships rather than documents, and traces contracting failure to structural causes: misaligned incentives, inherited templates, and fragmented ownership across functions. The Financial Times named him Market Shaper of the Year in 2019 and 2025.
Tim Cummnins
Founder & President, WorldCC, UK
Tim Cummins is President of World Commerce & Contracting, which he founded as IACCM in 1999, and Executive Director of the Commerce & Contract Management Institute. He came to contracting through corporate finance, automotive exports and aerospace negotiation, before leading the global reengineering of IBM's contracting process. A former Professor at the University of Leeds School of Law, he reframes contracts as support for dynamic relationships rather than documents, and traces contracting failure to structural causes: misaligned incentives, inherited templates, and fragmented ownership across functions. The Financial Times named him Market Shaper of the Year in 2019 and 2025.
Is It You, or Is It the System?
There is a moment, familiar to most in-house counsel, when a deal that seemed well-structured begins to fracture in execution. The terms were carefully reviewed, they were mutually agreed, and...Read more