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Our Partners
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Supporting partners ensure XBO can meet your needs
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'Passionate About Our Team
and Our Customers'
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Management Team
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CEO
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Philip Lew
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As CEO, Mr. Lew guides XBO in its overall strategy, operations, and business development. Previously, Mr. Lew worked at a Chinese outsourcing company as their Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President.
Previously, Mr. Lew founded Pulse Technologies, Inc., a leader in contact center systems integration. As the company's President, Mr. Lew managed the overall growth and operations of the company. In 1996, Pulse Technologies and its proprietary call center data warehousing software called soEASY were sold to EIS International (a public company listed on NASDAQ), a nationwide leader in contact center management systems. Mr. Lew served as Senior Vice President-Systems Integration Services at EIS following the acquisition. Shortly after the acquisition, Mr. Lew went to the Netherlands, where he managed the development and deployment of new products at TeleDynamics, a telecommunications software product company that sold products and services to PTT Telecom.
Mr. Lew has served as Assistant Dean at the College of Software in Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics and as an Adjunct Professor at Alaska Pacific University and Project Management College teaching graduate courses in software engineering, IT project management, and IT Governance. Mr. Lew is a certified PMP.
Mr. Lew has presented at several conferences including Interface, CTI Expo, and EuroForum on contact center technology and applications. He has been published in Project Management Technology, Network World, Telecommunications Magazine, Call Center Magazine, TeleProfessional, and DataPro Research Reports. He received his B.S. and Master of Engineering degrees in Operations Research from Cornell University. He is currently a Doctoral candidate at Beihang University in Beijing, China where his research area focuses on determining software reliability using model-based test partitioning.
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Vice President of Business Development
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Steve Gohres, Business Strategy
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As Vice President of Business Strategy, Steve brings to XBOSoft considerable experience in business and marketing. He served as a VP of Marketing for 4 years at Computer Associates, where he co-founded the consumer business unit which boosted the expansion of the CA footprint in web-based sales, driving distribution of security software to the home and small office markets. Under Steve!/s stewardship, the stand-alone start-up division added over 300,000 new subscribers and $5 million revenue per year. An engineer by training, Steve provides a rare combination of management expertise, international project experience and technology comments Philip Lew, founder and CEO of XBOSoft. Steve's experience in the oil industry includes both technical and management roles for UOP as Chief Process Engineer, Sales Manager, and Business Development Director in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. Steve serves on the Board of Directors for the Chinese-American Service League (CASL) in Chicago, the largest and most comprehensive social service agency in the Midwest dedicated to serving the needs of Chinese Americans with over 300 employees and a $9.2 million annual operating budget. He holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern, and a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Davis.
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Managing Director, European Operations
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Jan Princen
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As European Sales Director, Jan Princen brings valuable entrepreneurial experience and expertise having successfully started and sold several Internet related companies, including Ziemeer, a Dutch interactive media company. Most recently, he served as CEO of BMBO, a specialized outsourcing service that delivers high-end ICT products and corresponding service.
Today, Mr. Princen is an active angel investor in the software industry. Currently he is a shareholder and sits on the board of boutique investment firm Intobeta and serves as an advisor of IJOtechnologies a JAVA development company in Chengdu, China and IRLconnect, a European online discount portal.
Jan holds a Masters degree from the University of Maastricht.
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