Chairman/CEO and founder of Transworld as well as the group's legal counsel, Steve has an international commercial and legal background being admitted as a lawyer in the UK and Australia, as well as having been a director of Kentucky Fried Chicken. GB & Ireland, counsel to R J Reynolds-Nabisco and Pepsi Cola and strategic consultant to Thorn-EMI. He is also a past Member of Templeton College, Oxford Strategic Leadership Faculty and has lectured internationally on brand, IP development and business growth strategies.

Steve has been at the forefront of the majority of Transworld projects where he has been able to lend his many years of international legal, business and corporate hown-how, skills and experience. He is principally engaged in providing the group with general legal advise and matters related to corporate and business structuring, commercial contract negotiation, international licensing and new business/project start-ups, brand creation/development and strategies for market penetration and optimal value realisation .

Steve has been a leading figure in international licensing and roll out and played a major role in re-shaping the franchise sector in Australia including advising government, providing training and education and having contributed to the current legislative, regulatory and "good practice" law and codes affecting the establishment and conduct of franchises within the country.

As Chairman and President of Transworld and its in-house legal counsel, Steve is responsible for guiding, directing as well as driving Transworld's global expansion and the take up of both new projects and client opportunities.

E-mail : steve.cummins@transworldgroup.im