Leadership & Governance

Jomarie B. Fredericks is Deputy General Counsel, Chief Intellectual Property and Brand Counsel for Rotary International, the worldwide not-for-profit association of 36,000 member Rotary clubs and The Rotary Foundation. In this role, she leads a team of experienced professionals who are responsible for all trademark, copyright, licensing and domain name work for Rotary International, globally, as well as advising the Board of Directors, the Board of Trustees and various committees on matters of policy adoption and implementation.

Ms. Fredericks joined Rotary International after being in private practice with law firms in Chicago, where she practiced in trademark, copyright, libel, privacy and commercial and First Amendment litigation, with an emphasis on libel defense and media law, and after a prior career in radio. She holds a Masters of Law (LL.M.) in Intellectual Property from the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) School of Law, where she now serves on its Advisory Board, a Juris Doctor from Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Chicago-Kent College of Law, a Master of Science in Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts in Speech Communications from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).

Ms. Fredericks also serves as a Distinguished Member of the United States Patent and Trademark Office on its Trademark Public Advisory Committee (TPAC) and on the Board of Managers of the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago (IPLAC) Educational Foundation.

In her role as INTA President, Ms. Fredericks is Chair of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee, and a member of the Board of Governors of the INTA Political Action Committee (PAC).

Dana Brown Northcott is Vice President and Associate General Counsel for Amazon’s Intellectual Property team, where she leads the attorneys and legal professionals who support Amazon’s valuable brands and growing portfolio on trademark, domain name, gTLD, copyright and content protection efforts. Ms. Northcott devises Amazon’s intellectual property strategies and policies across the business globally, partnering closely with Amazon’s Marketing, Security, and Public Policy teams on brand protection, anti-counterfeiting, advertising, marketing, internet governance and litigation. She also represents Amazon on the Governing Board of Directors for the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment.

Prior to Amazon, Ms. Northcott was Legal Counsel for Agilent Technologies, and an Attorney for Howrey LLP in Menlo Park, California, and London, England. She has a Diploma in Intellectual Property Law and Practice from the University of Bristol in England, a Juris Doctor from University of San Francisco Law School, and Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University. Ms. Northcott is an Amazon Diversity Legal Team Executive Co-Sponsor, a Distinguished Member of the United States Patent Office and Trademark Office, on the Trademark Public Advisory Committee (TPAC), a Founding Governing Board Member for the Association for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), a Member of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Intellectual Property Group (IPC), a Board Member of the PNW Chapter of Chiefs in IP (ChIPs), a Founding Board Member of the Washington State Chapter of Intellectual Property Association (WIPA), coaches youth soccer, and takes every opportunity to be on a ski hill with her husband and two kids.

Ms. Northcott currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Board and is Chair of the Planning Committee.

Elisabeth Stewart Bradley is the Vice President, Innovation Law: Trademarks, Copyrights, and Brand Protection at Bristol Myers Squibb Company, a global biopharma company, and is based in their Princeton, N.J. offices.  She joined Bristol Myers Squibb in 2011, following eight years as in-house trademark counsel in the consumer products industry.

Prior to Bristol Myers Squibb, Ms. Bradley was in private practice in New York City for several years, handling both litigation and IP matters for a diverse range of clients. She graduated from The University of Virginia School of Law and holds a B.A. from The College of William & Mary.

Ms. Bradley currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Board and is the Group Officer of the Advocacy Group.

Deborah A. Hampton is Senior Trademark & Copyright Program Manager at The Chemours Company FC, LLC., whose brands include Teflon and Freon. She is the global Trademark Team Leader, responsible for managing Chemours trademark and copyright portfolio focusing on prosecution, registration, strategy, enforcement, and brand protection. Prior to joining Chemours in 2015, Ms. Hampton worked on teams during her career that managed global portfolios for brands such as Victoria’s Secret, AT&T, and Elizabeth Arden.

Ms. Hampton serves on the Executive Board of the Wilmington (DE) Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. She also serves as the chapter Parliamentarian. She is featured (chapter. 8) in 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. Ms. Hampton served two terms on the Trademark Public Advisory Committee of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Since inauguration in 2017 and subsequent years, Ms. Hampton has been nominated and selected for World Trademark Review’s WTR300: The World’s Leading Corporate Trademark Professionals. She has also been chosen as one of World Trademark Review’s Global Trademark Thought Leaders for the last four years.

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.

Ms. Hampton currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Board and is Group Officer of the Resources Group. She also serves as the Association’s Diversity Officer and oversees the DEI Council.

Daniel Zohny is Head of Intellectual Property at the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), where he leads a department of specialized IP professionals and oversees all aspects of conceptualization, registration, maintenance, and enforcement of FIFA’s IP, including the implementation of FIFA’s enforcement programs for the FIFA World Cup™ tournaments both online and onsite in the relevant host country during the event. In addition to all matters involving IP, he is responsible for FIFA’s ticketing enforcement efforts.

After law school and the bar exam in Germany, Mr. Zohny obtained his LL.M. in Intellectual Property at Cardozo Law School in New York. He passed the New York State Bar Exam and worked in private practice. He returned to Europe and joined FIFA in 2013.

Mr. Zohny serves as Treasurer and Chair of the Finance Committee of the Board. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Board.

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 26 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 also provides counseling to the PepsiCo Global Foods Group in a wider range of legal issues, which include 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 serves as Secretary and is Group Officer of the Communications Group. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Board and as Chair of the Association’s Brand Restrictions Committee.