Eric Coutinho is Company Secretary and Chief Legal Officer at Royal Philips Electronics. He has also been company Executive VP, Chief Legal Officer and Member of the Executive Committee at Royal Philips Electronics. Coutinho has been with the company since 1979 when he came on board in Eindhoven’s corporate legal department. A year later he went to the Dutch sales organization’s legal department as Consumer Division Business Lawyer. Other positions he has held include: global purchasing; Corporate mergers & Acquisitions; Business Support Group and more.