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management team

ALISA NG, CEO & Founder
Alisa conceived of L-atitude’s business platform during a trip to Asia in 2009. Over the years of extensive travels, Alisa enjoyed searching the globe for unique, well-made and well-priced fashion merchandise. Alisa developed L-atitude to provide women with immediate access to exotic & exclusive finds around the world. L-atitude enables women to “shop abroad” without having to step out of their homes/offices. Prior to her entrepreneurial pursuit, Alisa was a Vice President at Morgan Stanley’s Fixed Income Division in New York and Hong Kong. During her career in finance, Alisa advised U.S. Municipal Governments and Chinese Corporations on structuring debt and risk management strategies .

 

KYM CANTER, Creative Director
Kym Canter has 20 amazing years in the fashion industry, including working as Creative Director for luxury fashion house J. Mendel and Special Projects Editor at Elle Magazine. She was the Fashion Style Editor for The Washington Post Magazine and the original Shopping Columnist for The Wall Street Journal. Her styling work has appeared in publications including Vanity Fair, Dazed and Confused and German Vogue. Ms. Canter authored the humor book Star Von Bunny, A Model Tale for Harper Collins in 2008. Ms. Canter has shopped the world extensively and has never encountered a souk she didn’t love.

 

OLEG ANDELMAN, CTO
Oleg has over 13 years of experience in systems architecture and web programming. Oleg worked for many years at Credit Suisse and Lehman Brothers, where he led the systems design effort for futures and equity trading at both banks. He developed an in-house rules engine that is used by Lehman for routing, order management and trading systems for real time data retrieval. Most recently at Context Web Inc, he led a team of 6 designers to create new logging and reporting systems for his clients.

 

ASHLEY WICK, Marketing & Buying Advisor
Ashley Wick is the founder of The Creative Coup, a communications and branding consultancy based in New York City. Ms. Wick brings a decade of fashion publicity and marketing expertise to L'atitude. She uses her photographer's eye and stylist’s sensibility to scout ateliers and emerging talent globally. Previously, Ashley managed public relations and styling for Diane von Furstenberg and directed US marketing and PR efforts for British luxury leather goods designer Anya Hindmarch.

 

ANGELA BRUNO, Blogazine Editor
Angela Bruno will muse about fashion and travel for L-atitude’s Blogazine. A fulltime thinker/explorer, Angela has worked as a writer and editor for MTV, Rhapsody, the New York Post, Anthem magazine and other media outlets in the great city of New York. India, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia are a few of the places she’s found herself as of late. Dream destinations include London, Brazil and new avenues in general.

 

advisors

CRISTINA OTTOLINI, Design Advisor
Cristina Ottolini is an award-winning graphic designer whose work has been lauded internationally. Originally from Italy, she was Senior Art Director at Mucca Design from 2002 to 2008, and has since started her own design company in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has been selected to appear in the Type Directors Club, the AIGA, the Art Directors Club, Print, Step Inside Design and numerous other publications.