Christine Brendle is the Managing Director of Dow Jones in Asia Pacific. Based in Hong Kong, she leads the strategic development of Dow Jones throughout the region. In Asia Pacific, Dow Jones publishes The Wall Street Journal Asia, operates Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Factiva and several localized Web sites, including asia.WSJ.com, Chinese-language cn.WSJ.com and Japanese language jp.WSJ.com. She joined Dow Jones in February 2006, following a 17-year career with the Hachette Filipacchi publishing group in Asia, the U.S. and Europe. Prior to joining the Journal, Ms. Brendle spent several years as a media-industry consultant and publishing entrepreneur. In 2004, she and her partners launched Daily7 and Daily10, two daily English-language newspapers for children.