Rufus Deuchler
Senior Worldwide Evangelist for Creative Solutions
Adobe Systems Incorporated

Rufus is Sr. Worldwide Evangelist for Creative Solutions at Adobe. A graduate of the Art Center College of Design with a BFA in Communication Design, Rufus has been active as a corporate and editorial designer over the past 20 years. In 2002 Rufus was asked by Adobe Italy to become 'cross-media guru' and help spread the word around the country. This activity brought him to evangelize the Creative Suite to the creative pro and publishing market; he has since provided consulting and training on Adobe software and workflows to major design companies.

Being a certified expert and instructor for Adobe Premier and After Effects (ACE and ACI), Nelson John has been conducting Adobe certified training courses for the past three years. As the key person managing and leading the ACE and ACI modules, Nelson is responsible for the introduction of new course titles, content creation, marketing and teaching.

Nelson is a veteran of the media field with over 10 years of experience in the areas of 3D animation and multimedia. He has also worked extensively in print field and is proficient in the use of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. One of his key achievements is the creation of modular courses that allow 2D and Photoshop artists to make the transition into motion graphics.

Surachai Puthikulangkura graduated with a BA in Painting from Chiang Mai University in 1987. He later studied visual design at the Tokyo Designer Gakuin. In 1991, he won an award at the renowned Nippon Graphic exhibition, as well as another at the JACA 1992 Contemporary Graphic Art Exhibition: an exceptional achievement for a foreigner.

Then, 16 years ago, Surachai began training in photo retouching at Nippon Color Engineers, Tokyo, which worked with the Kamarart Studio in Thailand.

This is when his career kicked off and he now spends much time speaking at major design events and judging at professional competitions. In 2001, he established his own photo retouching company, Illusion. It is one of Asia Pacific’s top retouching houses for skin and hair care and one of the top three houses in Thailand for photo retouching.

Its high-profile customer base includes O&M, LOWE, JWT, Leo Burnett, Y&R and Saatchi & Saatchi.

Surachai won an Outdoor Silver Lion at Cannes Lions in 2002. Since then, he has won many other best print craft accolades from the likes of the Bangkok Art Directors Association Awards, Cannes Lions, New York Festivals, the Clio Awards, The One Show, AdFest and Spikes Asia.

In 2009, he won a Gold and two Silver awards for retouching and another Silver award for illustration at AdFest and was named as one of 200 Best Illustrators Worldwide by Archive. He has been Craft Jury at Spikes Asia’09 (1st Asian Advertising Festival) Now Surachai is going to drive his illusion company to the first CGI studio in Thailand.

www.illusion.co.th

Kajorn Bhirakit is a representative for Adobe in Thailand more than 7 years ago as a professional in Adobe Design Premium products. Kajorn is 1 in 8 of the Adobe instructor in Asia that Adobe has participated to worldwide Adobe Training Provider Summit at Adobe headquartersUSA in 2007. He is also the founder of Thai Adobe User Group since 2006 and a Chapter Representative of Bangkok InDesign User Group.

www.thaiadobeuser.com

Mr Torwong, known as P’How, graduated from Thailand’s Kasetsart University with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering. Since then his passion for photography has led him to become a freelance professional photographer specialising in beauty, cosmetics and photojournalism. He also works as a columnist for various popular magazines.

www.2how.com

As Lenovo Thailand’s Business Development Manager since 2008, Worrathep manages product lifecycle marketing and sales enablement activities for the Lenovo "Think" family in Thailand. Worrathep plays an important role in developing hardware and software solutions for Lenovo’s commercial business. He also works across all channels and customers to understand their specific requirements in the different sectors, and to recommend appropriate solutions and relevant marketing strategies.

With his background in IT and related fields, Worrathep travels nationwide to present to business partners, corporate companies, and end users about understanding and using Lenovo’s "Think" family in the corporate and SMB environments. Before joining Lenovo, Worratehp worked in high-profile sales and management roles for Dell and a number of other local and multinational companies.