Zhong Xu — CEO
Entrepreneur & Investor specialized in web, mobile, saas, foodtech and cloud products My life's motto: don't settle, stay hungry, stay foolish The most important business accomplishments in my life are: [@Deliverect | 2018 - now] - Co-Founder & CEO of Deliverect, our mission is to be the backbone of digital food and help business to keep control, proud to have processed over 11 billion$ in GMV in 2024 for our customers and scaled the team to 500+ employees serving customers in more then 50 markets & raising over 250M $ in funding [@Lightspeed | 2014 - 2018] - Global director of hospitality product/ managing director Belgium & co-founder Lightspeed restaurant, scaled Lightspeed restaurant to customers > 100 countries. Market leader in the hospitality cloud POS business in Europe, ranging from QSRs, hotels to Michelin star restaurants, IPO’d in 2019 LSPD.NYSE [@POSIOS | 2011-2014] - Co-founder & CEO POSIOS, iPad & cloud based POS for the hospitality business, POSIOS was founded in 2011 and had offices in Singapore, Ghent and NY. Customers > 38 Countries, grown exponentially to +24 FTE's in less than 2 years. 1st iPad POS in EMEA - Raised 1 million USD and build a sustainable running business - Acquired in september 2014 by Lightspeed and joined Lightspeed as Global director of hospitality product [@EVS | 2010-2012] - Created cloud solutions for big sport organisations and events at EVS (BBC, UEFA, FIFA, London Olympics, Monaco, ...) - Delivered webservices and applications to major players in the broadcast industry [@Siruna | 2009 - 2010] - Implementated and launched the low cost SaaS mobile ecomm product (after 6 months 3000 customers, 1600 projects) - Developed and launched the Siruna mobile web conversion tool that is used by large national (VRT, Belgacom, Telenet, Mobistar…) and international (Aramco, Truvo…) companies - Created apps for smartphones (Nokia N95, Symbian 😅) [@XudoX] - Started my first company when I was 17, web agency creating websites for Asian restaurant with more then 800 customers & creating/selling POS solutions to Asian restaurants. Market leader in BE with >90% marketshare
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Foodtech entrepreneur with extensive experience in hospitality technology.
Location: New York, New York, United States
Experience: 20 yrs 4 mos
Skills
- Saas
- Hospitality Industry
- Web Applications
- Broadcast Technology
- Cloud Solutions
- Mobile Applications
Career Highlights
- Co-founded Deliverect, processing over $11 billion in GMV.
- Led Lightspeed to become a market leader in hospitality cloud POS.
- Pioneered the first iPad-based cloud POS in Europe.
Work Experience
Deliverect
Co-Founder & CEO (7 yrs 8 mos)
Lightspeed HQ
Global Director of Hospitality (3 yrs 10 mos)
POSIOS
Co-Founder & CEO (3 yrs 3 mos)
EVS Broadcast Equipment
Sr. Software engineer (2 yrs 5 mos)
Siruna
Technical sales and Software engineer (9 mos)
iBoot
Idea Owner (0 mo)
VDK Spaarbank
Internship (1 mo)
XudoX IT Solutions
founder/owner (18 yrs 4 mos)
ChinAdvice
translator (2 yrs)
Bekaert
Translator (Dutch - Chinese) (0 mo)
Education
Master at Ghent University
bachelor at Ghent University
webdesign and dreamweaver at Provinciaal centrum voor volwassen onderwijs
modern language and science at sint-lievenscollege