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Bertrand J. Alexis
Vice President
Cable & Wireless plc
Tijen Sensebat-Cirtma
Noerr Stiefenhofer Lutz
Anne-Rose E. Stouthuysen
Associate General Counsel, Europe, Middle East & Africa, Bedrijfsjurist - Juriste d'Entreprise
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

2. Faculty Biographies
Bertrand J. Alexis
Vice President
Cable & Wireless plc
Tijen Sensebat-Cirtma
Noerr Stiefenhofer Lutz
Anne-Rose E. Stouthuysen
Ann Rose E. Stouthuysen is the assistant general counsel within the EMEA legal
department of Sun Microsystems Inc., located in Brussels. Her responsibilities include
providing legal counsel for EMEA related matters and contracts of the Global Customer
Services (GCS) and Global Strategic Sourcing (procurement) divisions and as the lead
attorney supporting global contract negotiations with one of Sun's major customers in
the telecom sector. She is a member of the Sun EMEA GCS executive team and the Sun
Legal Diversity Council.
Prior to joining Sun Microsystems Inc. Ms. Stouthuysen has worked both in industry
and private practice. She has approximately 19 years legal experience in contract and
commercial law. Ms. Stouthuysen served two years as European legal counsel for Dell
Inc. providing legal counsel to the sales and management teams of the Benelux and
France, and one year as in-house counsel for Aviapartner N.V. While working in private
practice, Ms. Stouthuysen was a senior associate with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, based in Brussels, and completed the European
Young Lawyers course of the British Council at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
She began her career as a commercial litigator.
Ms. Stouthuysen is a graduate of the Catholic University of Leuven School of Law,
Belgium, holds a postgraduate certificate in Finance from the Catholic University of
Leuven School of Economic Sciences and is an alumni of the Center for Creative
Leadership – Europe.
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