Management Team

Ming Poon, Senior VP of Product Development & COO

Ming Poon directs Xandros’ product strategies, manages the R&D teams globally, and oversees the day to day operations across all the divisions. His pioneering vision led him to found the Corel LINUX Project in February 1999, which led to the creation of the world’s first commercial Linux Desktop. Following the successful launch of Corel LINUX OS, Ming was in charge of all five of Corel’s Linux software development teams.
 
As Xandros Sr. VP of Product Development, Ming’s vision is to make powerful and complex “geek” technologies accessible to consumers and corporate users alike. He fostered user-friendly desktop and server solutions that seamlessly make Linux, UNIX, and Windows environments interoperate with each other, and is now extending that vision to cross-platform management tools for managing today’s heterogeneous enterprise environments.
 
His engineering vision led to a custom OEM solution for the Asus Eee PC, helping to launch the Netbook revolution. The same vision led to the successful creation of BridgeWays Management Packs for Microsoft System Center and Xandros Management Console for Red Hat server which promise to usher in a new era of single-pane-of-view cross-platform system administration. Ming also led the strategic acquisition of Scalix and Linspire/CNR where he is now applying his engineering expertise to guide these two product lines into the overall Xandros vision.
 
Prior to becoming the founding member of Xandros, Ming served as Senior Software Development Manager for Corel  Corporation. He also has extensive software development experience from low level device driver programming in assembly language to high volume client server applications, complex GUI applications, database server, and video/audio conferencing applications in C/C++, Java, and .NET environments across various platforms and varied industries. Ming holds a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Electrical Engineering with a Management Science option from the University of Waterloo in Canada.