Toe Su Aung is Director of Elipe Limited, based in London, UK, a strategy and policy consultancy that works with IP owners on IP, digital, and sustainability issues. A qualified solicitor in both the UK and Singapore, she spent 20 years at British American Tobacco before co-founding Elipe.

She served as INTA President in 2013, and on INTA’s Board of Directors from 2003-2005 and then again from 2008-2013 in Officer positions.

She has been on the INTA Foundation Board of Governors since 2016.

Debra Y. Hughes is Assistant General Counsel for the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), where she manages a team of attorneys, paralegals and consultants supporting the marketing, communications, strategy, digital and licensing business teams develop, leverage, and protect innovative products, services, and health equity initiatives.

She served on the INTA’s Board of Directors from 2010-2012.

Ayala Deutsch is Executive Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of NBA Properties, where she is responsible for managing commercial legal affairs and intellectual property matters for the National Basketball Association (NBA) and its affiliated leagues, including the global acquisition, protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights belonging to the NBA, the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), the NBA G League, the NBA 2K League and their respective teams.

Ayala served as INTA President in 2020, and on INTA’s Board of Directors from 2003-2005 and then again from 2015-2019 in Officer positions.

Megan Bannigan is a partner in Debevoise & Plimpton LLP’s Intellectual Property and Litigation Groups (New York City, USA), representing and counseling clients on cutting-edge matters involving trademarks, trade dress, copyrights, false advertising, design patents, rights of publicity, licensing, and other disputes. She is also an adjunct professor, teaching Advanced Trademark and False Advertising Law at NYU School of Law, and Fashion Law at Rutgers School of Law.

Ms. Bannigan currently serves as Promotions Subcommittee Chair for the INTA Brands for a Better Society Committee.  She previously served on the INTA Pro Bono Committee, where she spearheaded the development of the INTA Pro Bono Clearinghouse, and for which she received a Volunteer Service Award for Advancement of the Organization in 2017.

Joana de Mattos Siqueira is a lawyer with over 20 years of experience in intellectual property. She is a partner at Montaury Pimenta, Machado & Vieira de Mello, responsible for the firm’s trademark matters and its portfolio of international brands. She also leads the firm’s Diversity & Inclusion committee.

Ms. Siqueira actively participates in world IP organizations such as INTA (International Trademark Association), ASIPI (Inter-American Association of Industrial Property) and ECTA (European Communities Trademark Association). She is both the Brazilian National Delegate of ASIPI and Secretary of its Diversity & Inclusion committee.

She is a member of INTA’s Brands for a Better Society Committee and the coordinator of the Diversity and Inclusion committee of ABPI (Associação Brasileira da Propriedade Intelectual). Ms. Siqueira is member of WIPLA (Women’s Intellectual Property Lawyers Association) and has been recognized as being among the most influential women in IP by the publication World IP Review 2020.

Jason Yao is a partner and management committee member at Wanhuida Intellectual Property, an IP firm headquartered in Beijing, China. He has spent over 25 years practicing IP law and corporate law and has a combination background of in-house counsel and private practice, first with Procter & Gamble, and then with Acushnet Company. He joined the firm in 2014 and opened the Hong Kong and Shenzhen Offices.

Mr. Yao served on the INTA’s Anti-Counterfeiting Committee during the 2017–2018 term and the 2020–2021 term.