Leadership & Governance

Deborah A. Hampton holds the position of Trademark Team Leader at The Chemours Company. She is responsible for managing Chemours’ brand portfolio and developing and implementing global strategies to protect and enforce trademarks against infringement and counterfeiting. Furthermore, she collaborates with her business colleagues to ensure that brands are properly maintained and in alignment with corporate goals and objectives.  

Ms. Hampton is a member of the Executive Board of the Wilmington (DE) Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and serves as the chapter Parliamentarian. In 2024 she was elected to the University of Cincinnati Alumni Association’s College of Arts & Sciences Alumni Advisory Board. 

Ms. Hampton is featured in Chapter 8 of the book “Lessons from The Top Paralegal Experts: The 15 Most Successful Paralegals in America and What You Can Learn from Them” by Carole A. Bruno. She has served two terms on the Trademark Public Advisory Committee of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Since 2017, Ms. Hampton has been consistently nominated and selected for World Trademark Review’s WTR300: The World’s Leading Corporate Trademark Professionals. Additionally, for the past six years, she has been recognized as one of World Trademark Review’s Global Trademark Thought Leaders.  

Ms. Hampton received her bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Cincinnati.  She also received an ABA-Approved Paralegal Certificate from Adelphi University’s now disbanded Paralegal Program. 

In her role as INTA President, Ms. Hampton is Chair of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee. She is also a member of the INTA Women’s LeadershIP Initiative Project Team. 

Marlou van de Braak is the Company Secretary of Heineken NV, responsible for the corporate governance of Heineken NV as a publicly listed company. She is a Legal Business Partner for the Executive Board and Supervisory Board.  

Before, for about 7 years she was the Global IP Director – Brands, Advertising, Sponsorships & Alcohol Regulatory of HEINEKEN, running the global intellectual property department and being in charge of brand protection and trademark enforcement (the Heineken company has about 500 unique brands), marketing compliance as well as negotiating the global sports sponsorship agreements. 

Previously she was the Managing Director of Novagraaf Netherlands, an international trademark agency. She also was the head of the legal department of the Dutch Media Authority. For 17 years (6 years as a partner) Mrs. Van de Braak was an IP litigation lawyer at two well-established international law firms (De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek and Hoyng Rokh Monegier).  

 Mrs. Van de Braak currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Board and is Chair of the Planning Committee. 

Sergio Barragan is the Senior Legal Director and Trademark Counsel for PepsiCo, Inc. He is responsible for PepsiCo’s food and beverage trademark portfolio in the Latin American region, in which several well-known brands exceeding the US$1B value can be identified. Mr. Barragan has more than 29 years of experience in the IP field, and his practice is focused on trademarks, copyright, portfolio management, IP litigation and conflicts, as well as strategic counseling and related matters.  Mr. Barragan is also Head Counsel of the PepsiCo Global Foods Group, in which he provides counseling on a wider range of legal issues, which includes securing consistency of the major global food brands across the globe.  

Before joining PepsiCo, Mr. Barragan was a senior associate at Santamarina y Steta, one of the top and most recognized full-service law firms in Mexico.  Here, he started his journey with IP, learning about trademarks, copyrights, patents, and plant varieties, among other IP related matters, not only for Mexico but all around the world. This is where Mr. Barragan fell in love with IP.   

Mr. Barragan currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Board and is the Group Officer of the Advocacy Group.  

Debra Y. Hughes is Assistant General Counsel for the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association where she manages a team of attorneys, paralegals and consultants supporting the marketing, communications, regulatory and policy compliance, international licensing and protection for innovative products, services and health equity initiatives.  In August of 2020, she was appointed to the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association’s Diversity Equity and Inclusion Advisory Committee. Before joining the Association, Ms. Hughes was special counsel at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP representing Fortune 100 companies on a wide array of intellectual property, Internet and transactional matters.  Prior to Katten, she was Senior Counsel at the American Red Cross where she advised the organization regarding intellectual property, Internet strategy, entertainment, technology, fundraising and licensing agreements.  While at the American Red Cross, Ms. Hughes was appointed as a Councilor to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (“ICANN”) GNSO Council with the charge to help increase the voice and participation of non-profit organizations within Internet governance.  In 2011, she received recognition from the ICANN Board of Directors for her significant contributions.  

Ms. Hughes received the “2022 In-house Leader of the Year” award from the World Trademark Review (WTR) recognizing her delivery of client services grounded in her ability to develop synergies among multiple stakeholders that collaborate to execute strategic initiatives and complex transactions that align with business priorities. Ms. Hughes received her JD, with honors, from Texas Southern University where she served as Editor-In-Chief of the Thurgood Marshall Law Review.   

Ms. Hughes currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Board, is the Group Officer of the Resources Group, as well as INTA’s Belonging and Inclusion Officer. She also serves as Treasurer of the INTA Foundation.  

Michael Moore is Vice President, Assistant General Counsel, and Global Head of Intellectual Property – Content & Brands for Mattel, Inc., where he has been an attorney for 24 years.  He manages a team of attorneys and paralegal professionals across multiple jurisdictions charged with protecting the intellectual property rights to brands such as Barbie, Hot Wheels, Fisher-Price, Thomas and Friends, Polly Pocket, SCRABBLE, UNO, and more at IP offices and courts around the world.  Michael served as past Chair of the INTA PAC Board of Governors and was recently appointed to the USPTO’s Trademark Public Advisory Committee (TPAC) by the US Secretary of Commerce.  In 2024 Michael was recognized as In-House Counsel of the Year by World Trademark Review (WTR), made World IP Review’s list of Top 100 people driving positive change in IP, and ManagingIP recently named him one of the 50 Most Influential People in IP. 

Prior to joining Mattel, Mr. Moore worked at the San Diego District Attorney’s Office, at the US Patent & Trademark Office as an examining attorney, as well as in private practice.   

Mr. Moore serves as Treasurer and Chair of the Finance Committee of the Board. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Board and is a member of the INTA Women’s LeadershIP Initiative Project Team.   

Axel is a founding partner of the NORDEMANN firm in Berlin where he works on all areas of trademark, copyright and competition law, serving national and international clients from a wide range of different industries, including the software, travel, fragrance and beauty, and pharmaceutical industries, publishing houses, radio stations and a large German retail chain.  

Mr. Nodermann is also a Honorary Professor at the University of Constance, where he teaches Copyright Law, and the editor and author of commentaries on the German Copyright Act (“Fromm/Nordemann”, 13th Ed. 2024), the German Trade Marks Act (“Ingerl/ Rohnke/ Nordemann”, 4th Ed. 2023), and the Law on Unfair Competition (“Götting/ Nordemann”, 3rd Ed. 2016).  

Mr. Nodermann has been the Chair and previously the Vice-Chair of the Copyright Committee of INTA, the Co-Chair of the Academic Committee, the Co-Chair of the 2018 Annual Meeting in Seattle, and the Chair of the Board Alumni Project Team 2023-2026. Furthermore, he has served on the Board of Directors of INTA during the 2021-23 term.  

Mr. Nordemann serves as Secretary and serves on the Executive Committee of the Board.