Marianne Massart
Director - Associate General Counsel
Luxembourg
Summary
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Top SchoolMarianne Massart is a seasoned corporate lawyer and commercial contracts negotiator with over 12 years of experience steering regulatory and commercial legal matters across EMEA, now serving as Director – Associate General Counsel at Cisco in Luxembourg. She blends deep in-house expertise—from regulatory leadership to senior corporate counsel roles—with prior law firm experience handling commercial, distribution and niche local tax litigation. Known for pragmatic deal-making and sustainability advocacy, Marianne brings a practical, business-focused approach to complex cross-border transactions and compliance programs. Beyond legal strategy she has hands-on technical curiosity, having contributed back-end work to an open-source .NET CMS LuceneSearch module that improved indexing and multi-threaded crawling performance. A runner and foodie by disposition, she combines optimism and stamina in high-pressure negotiations and long-term regulatory projects. Fluent in continental European legal practice and in-house counsel dynamics, she is adept at turning dense legal issues into actionable commercial solutions.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BmediationEMTPJ 2013Law, Law at Université libre de Bruxelles
Github Skills (16)
crawler10
lucene10
asp-net10
net10
lucene-net10
dotnet10
web-crawler10
csharp10
webscraper10
webscraping10
dotnet-core10
crawling10
multithreading9
asp-net-core8
nhibernate7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
devbridge/BetterCMS
Dec 2013 - Dec 2013
A publishing focused and developer friendly .NET Open Source CMS.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 7 days
Contributions summary:Marianne primarily contributed to the development of a LuceneSearch module for the .NET-based CMS. Their work included adding modules, implementing a web crawler service, and indexing functionality. They also refactored the crawling process, using multi-threading to improve performance. Additionally, the user implemented an index update process and integrated the indexing and scraping services.
cmsdotnet
gentooboontoo/js-quantities
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
JavaScript library for quantity calculation and unit conversion
Contributions:1 issue in 1 day
javascriptunit-conversionunitsmeasuretemperature
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