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.
