CReATION: Looks.com bags Cartier, Joyce executives

Asian beauty portal Looks.com has gone on a senior management hunt,

bagging senior staffers Jacqueline Ng, former regional public relations

executive at Cartier, Monica Mak of Joyce Boutique and Spring Pong from

Estee Lauder sub-brand Bobbi Brown Cosmetics.

Ms Ng makes the move following a tenure with Cartier handling regional

public relations, a position that included formulating and implementing

corporate communications strategies and promotions.

At Looks.com, she fills the post of marketing and communications

manager.

Sparked by a stint with Hong Kong fashion emporium Joyce Boutique as

relationship marketing manager, Ms Mak's brief is to develop the

company's customer services strategies and foster membership

schemes.

Coming onto the Looks team from a post as Hong Kong retail manager for

Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, Spring Pong steps in as creative beauty

director.

She will oversee online and offline beauty projects for the portal,

which launched in Asia-Pacific last December.

- Sparked by a five-year tenure as senior vice-president, private equity

with Templeton Asset Management, Mr Jack Lin makes the move to

Chinadotcom Corporation.

He joins the group's strategic investments team as vice-president of

strategy.

His mandate is to find, evaluate and execute strategic alliances,

partnerships and acquisitions for Chinadotcom Corp.

Meanwhile, Mr Kenneth Fowler takes the helm as senior vice-president of

finance at Chinadotcom, having joined the Internet giant earlier in the

year to take charge of the group's corporate treasury, strategic

financial management and accounting.

Based in Hong Kong, Mr Fowler is tipped to grow his team from 40

accounting staffers at present to more than 70 finance professionals by

the end of the year.

The growth in staffing levels will occur as he spearheads the

integration of the financial operations of Chinadotcom's various

acquisitions with group growth.

Before entering the dotcom field, Mr Fowler was director of Corporate

Finance at SkyTel Latin America and at SkyTel International.

- At Dow Jones Interactive Publishing, the newly-created position of

WSJ.com, marketing and circulation director for the Asia-Pacific region

has been filled by Mr Waikay Lau.

He takes the internal step from The Asian Wall Street Journal to WSJ.com

after a tenure as regional circulation manager for Greater China.

During his four-year tenure with the Dow Jones group, Mr Lau was also

The Asian Wall Street Journal's country manager for the Taiwan

office.

His latest assignment involves developing and implementing marketing

strategies for WSJ.com, with the onus on ramping-up regional product

awareness and paid circulation.

- Challenging the might of PricewaterhouseCoopers Internet advertising

network, Space (formerly known as Space Asia Media) has taken on PWC's

former ebusiness manager, Mr Suresh Kanji, as director of finance.

Following his last four-year stint - which involved advising start-ups

on their business plans and financing - Mr Kanji is set to oversee and

plan Space's regional finance management and play a key role in business

strategy.

Taking the helm for new funding at Space, he will also instigate the

necessary requirements for its impending initial public offering,

proceeds of which will be utilised to fund the Internet advertising

network's future expansion and marketing strategies, both online and

offline.