Starwood Names Kenneth S. Siegel Executive Vice President, General Counsel.Business Editors WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 14, 2000 Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HOT) named Kenneth S. Siegel as Executive Vice President, General Counsel. Siegel joins Starwood from the Cognizant/IMS Health/The Gartner Group, and will report directly to Barry S. Sternlicht, Chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . He will be responsible for worldwide legal and government relations for Starwood, including counseling on all corporate matters at both the senior management and Board level. "Ken's wide range of legal and managerial expertise coupled with his successes as both outside counsel and in-house counsel make him well qualified to take on the General Counsel role at Starwood," says Barry Sternlicht, chairman and CEO, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. Siegel served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Cognizant/IMS Health/The Gartner Group for the last four years. Cognizant, a multinational information services See Information Systems. company, was originally comprised of IMS Health; Nielsen Media Research and the Gartner Group. In 1998, Cognizant divested its three unrelated components into two entities and Siegel became General Counsel of IMS Health, which included IMS Health and a minority interest in Gartner. In 1999, IMS Health spun off Gartner in a tax-free transaction Ken designed, and he was named General Counsel of Gartner in January 2000. From 1994 to 1997, Siegel was a Corporate Partner with Baker & Botts LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol , responsible for a full range of corporate legal services with particular focus on technology-oriented clients including Lotus, Polaroid, Dell and TCI (Trustworthy Computing Initiative) An umbrella term from Microsoft for its efforts to improve security in Windows. TCI was announced in 2002 after viruses such as Code Red and Nimda had succeeded in attacking numerous Windows computers. as well as representation of international leveraged buyout funds and securities firms. Before that, he served as Corporate Partner with O'Sullivan Graev & Karabell LLP where he focused on work for Lotus as well as major transactional work including the acquisition of Motel 6 by Accor. Siegel began his career in 1980 as a Corporate Associate with Cravath Swaine & Moore. Siegel received an AB degree from Cornell University and his JD with honors from New York University New York University, mainly in New York City; coeducational; chartered 1831, opened 1832 as the Univ. of the City of New York, renamed 1896. It comprises 13 schools and colleges, maintaining 4 main centers (including the Medical Center) in the city, as well as the , where he was a member of the Law Review and received the John Norton Pomeroy John Norton Pomeroy (1828-1885) was an American lawyer and legal writer, born in Rochester, N. Y., where he practiced law for many years following his graduation from Hamilton College (1847) and his admittance to the state bar in 1851. Scholarship for academic excellence. He will be based at Starwood's World Headquarters in White Plains, New York For other places with the same name, see White Plains (disambiguation). White Plains is a city in south-central Westchester County, New York, about 4 miles (6 km) east of the Hudson River and . Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) is one of the leading hotel and leisure companies in the world with more than 725 properties in 80 countries and 120,000 employees at its owned and managed properties. With internationally renowned brands, Starwood is a fully integrated owner, operator and franchiser of hotels and resorts including: St. Regis, The Luxury Collection, Sheraton, Westin, Four Points by Sheraton Four Points by Sheraton is Starwood Hotels & Resorts mid-market hotel brand, targeted towards business travelers and small conventions. Four Points was created by the former ITT Sheraton before Starwood acquired the firm in 1998. , W brands, as well as Starwood Vacation Ownership, Inc., one of the premier developers and operators of high quality vacation interval ownership resorts. For more information, please visit us at www.starwoodhotels.com Members of the media only please contact Starwood's new toll-free media hotline at (866) 4-STAR-PR (866-478-2777) assistance. |
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