Tse started life as a poor boy in Hong Kong. After immigrating, he co-founded AccountMate Software Corporation, which he ran profitably for over ten years before selling it for $8.5 million to Softline International.
Marjorie Lichtenstein is the woman who helped him immigrate to the United States (as they pose for a San Francisco Chronicle profile photo - top right).
Read his
profile as featured in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Over the last 21 years, Boardwalk Chairman Ben Tse has amassed a sparkling track record of achievements in the business software arena. In 1984 Ben Tse co-founded AccountMate Software Corporation and as president and CEO, led a “mom and pop” start-up business into an internationally acclaimed company with over 100 employees, 3000 resellers and offices throughout Asia and North America.
While leading AccountMate, Tse’s vision and entrepreneurial spirit attracted both IBM and Microsoft to enlist AccountMate as a strategic partner to help them in the launch of new products and platforms. IBM actually asked Tse to act as spokesman for the national rollout of their AS/400 platform for the mid-market with full-page advertisements in national trade publications, while Microsoft lavished numerous awards on AccountMate for their innovations in product design (see photo bottom right).
These strategic partnerships helped propel AccountMate onto the international stage and achieve greater success.
Since selling AccountMate to a multinational South African enterprise in 2000, Tse has diversified his portfolio of companies and investments into a wide variety of sectors and countries that span the globe.
