Dr. Poondej Krairit is the Director of Wisdom Guardian IP Consulting and the Head of the Intellectual Property Department at Dej-Udom & Associates. He is an expert in IP matters and has a strong background in electrical engineering, telecommunications engineering, and all information technology related areas. He is a post-graduate of Boston University and holds a PhD in Computers and Engineering Management from Assumption University. He specializes in the drafting of patent specifications and applications and the prosecution of trademarks.

Dr. Krairit is ranked as one of the leading individuals for trademark prosecution and strategy and patent prosecution in Thailand, and the firm’s IP team has also garnered international recognition for
intellectual property work in regional reviews. He is a Professional Patent Agent certified and registered by Thailand’s Department of Intellectual Property. He currently serves as Secretary-General and
Committee Member of the Intellectual Property Promotion Association of Thailand (IPPAT) and is a Committee Member of the Intellectual Property Association of Thailand (IPAT).

He is also a Council Member of the ASEAN Intellectual Property Association (ASEAN IPA). Additionally, Dr. Krairit is member of Assumption International University‘s faculty of science and a guest lecturer at other Thai universities.

Jittima Srithaporn is working at the Ministry of Commerce in Bangkok. She is the Director of the IP Promotion and Development Office for the Department of Intellectual Property. She has experience working on intellectual property, mainly on copyright, intellectual property laws, enforcement of intellectual property and international cooperation. In 2007, she took up the Counsellor (Commercial) post at the Office of Commercial Affairs, Royal Thai Embassy in Washington D.C., responsible for intellectual property areas. Later in 2012, she came back to Bangkok to work as Head of the Enforcement Policy Division, Copyright Protection Division and Legal Affairs Division at the Department of Intellectual Property.

A Thai national, Jittima graduated from Thammasat University with the Bachelor of Laws and Master of Laws (US Legal Studies) from Case Western Reserve University and LL.M. (Intellectual Property Law) from the John Marshall Law School in the U.S.A.