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Eric Coutinho is Company Secretary, Chief Legal Officer and a member of the General Management Committee.
After completing his Law degree, Mr. Coutinho joined Philips� Corporate Legal department in Amsterdam in 1979. In 1980 he moved to the legal department of the Dutch sales organisation where he served as the Consumer division�s business lawyer. This was followed by a move back to Corporate Legal to serve the global purchasing organisation.
In 1993 Mr. Coutinho joined Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions. In 1995 he returned to Corporate Legal to head the Mergers & Acquisitions and Business Support group, during which time he was involved in various divestments, including Car Systems, Polygram, the Media division and, more recently, Semiconductors.
Mr. Coutinho became Company Secretary and Chief Legal Offier on May 1, 2006. He was appointed to the Group Management Committee on February 1, 2007.
Eric Coutinho was born in 1951 in The Hague, took his schooling in Indonesia and the UK and studied Law at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands and graduated in 1979. He is married, with two children. | 