"Ken's wide range of legal and managerial expertise coupled withhis successes as both outside counsel and in-house counsel make himwell qualified to take on the general counsel role at Starwood,"Sternlicht says.

Siegel has served as senior vice president and general counselof Cognizant/IMS Health/The Gartner Group for the last four years.From 1994 to 1997, Siegel was a corporate partner with Baker &Botts LLP, responsible for a full range of corporate legal serviceswith particular focus on technology-oriented clients includingLotus, Polaroid, Dell and TCI as well as representation ofinternational leveraged buyout funds and securities firms.

Before that, he served as corporate partner with O'SullivanGraev & Karabell LLP where he focused on work for Lotus as wellas major transactional work including the acquisition of Motel 6 byAccor. Siegel began his career in 1980 as a corporate associatewith Cravath Swaine & Moore.