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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Lew Davies

Lew Davies has served on Crossbow Board of Directors since 1997. Davies founded The Cambria Group in 1996 and is its Managing Principal. He is an experienced private equity investor, having previously been a Principal in the leveraged buyout groups of both Brentwood Associates and The Fremont Group. He currently serves on seven corporate boards, as well as serving on the Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution and as a National Trustee of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Previously, Davies worked for Bechtel Group, Inc., a leading international engineering-construction firm, serving in operating and financial roles including project management and project financing. Earlier, Davies worked in Chevron Corporation's foreign operation staff and was the primary real estate analyst for the company's U.S. and Canadian pension plans. Davies holds a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, with distinction, from Stanford University. He also received an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Jerry Fiddler

Jerry Fiddler has served on Crossbow Board of Directors since 1997. Fiddler is the founder and previously served as CEO and Chairman of Wind River Systems (Nasdaq: WIND), a leading provider of embedded software worldwide. Fiddler has published and presented numerous papers and articles on embedded technology and the rise of hidden, or embedded, computers in everyday life. He has been the keynote speaker for numerous conferences worldwide. He was also a member of the first NRC National Study of Networked Embedded Systems. Fiddler sits on several other corporate boards, including Axis, Nanochip, and Tensilica, as well as a number of advisory and non-profit boards. He has worked actively both with students and in an advisory capacity at a number of universities, including the University of California at Berkeley, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Illinois. He received a B.A. in Music and Photography, and an M.S. in Computer Science, both from the University of Illinois.

Mike A Horton

Mike Horton co-founded Crossbow Technology and has served as its President & CEO, and a Board Member, since inception. Horton has led Crossbow from its founding product line of digital MEMS accelerometers and tilt sensors to its current market leading position in smart sensor technology. Horton has closed $25 Million in venture financing for the company, including investments from Cisco Systems and Intel Corporation. He has co-authored four issued patents, and he has co-authored another four pending patents. Horton was named one of the Top 100 Innovators in the MIT Technology Review and was named one of The Top 50 Movers and Shakers in high technology by Electronic Business Magazine. He graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering.

Harvey Jones

Harvey Jones has served on Crossbow's Board of Directors since 1997. Jones co-founded and served as President and CEO of Daisy Systems, the first workstation-based, computer-aided engineering (CAE) company, which he took public in 1983. In 1987 he joined the founding team of Synopsys, Inc. As President & CEO, he took the company public in 1992 (Nasdaq:SNPS) where he assumed the additional position of Chairman of the Board. Jones retired from his operational roles in 1998 to pursue venture investing and has been an active participant in the founding, funding and development of Illustra (sold to Informix), Interconnectix (sold to Mentor Graphics), Mercury Interactive, Numerical Technologies (2000 IPO and ultimately sold to Synopsys), nVidia (Nasdaq:NVDA), Red Pepper Software (Sold to Peoplesoft), Remedy (1994 IPO and ultimately sold to BMC Software) and Simplex Solutions (2000 IPO and ultimately sold to Cadence Design NYSE:CDN). Jones holds a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Sciences from Georgetown University, and an M.S. in Management from MIT's Sloan School of Management.

Michael J. Moniz

Michael Moniz has served on Crossbow's Board of Directors since 2007. Moniz is a Managing Director of Paladin. Moniz is also co-founder, President & CEO of Circadence Corporation, in which capacity he actively promotes that company's strategy and accomplishments. He has been instrumental in raising over $100 million in funding for Circadence, including forging significant strategic relationships and investments with Microsoft, Deutsche Telekom, Hewlett Packard, Global Crossing, PSINet, Pacific Century Cyberworks Japan and Accenture. Prior to Circadence, Moniz founded and led a number of successful enterprises in the Internet, media, and sensor segments. Moniz was selected as a candidate for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2001, and serves on the advisory board of the National Center for Biodefense Communications. Moniz has completed completed the Executive Development Program at the Wharton School of the Aresty Institute of Executive Education at the University of Pennsylvania.

Gary Morgenthaler

Gary Morgenthaler has served on Crossbow's Board of Directors since 2005, and he has served as a board adviser and observer since 1999. Morgenthaler is an experienced venture capital investor. He joined Morgenthaler Ventures as a General Partner in December 1989. He has a national reputation as a successful executive in the software industry. He currently emphasizes investments in information technology, and is also a Director of Active Technologies, BlueArc Corporation, OneChip, and Orb Networks. Gary was a co-founder and past CEO of Illustra Information Technologies, Inc., where he served as a Chairman of Illustra's Board until its acquisition by Informix in 1996. He also served as Director of Catena Networks (acquired by Ciena Nasdaq: CIEN), Nuance Communications, and Premisys Communications and led the firm's investments in Force10 Networks and QuickLogic. From 1980 until 1989, Gary co-founded and served as CEO and Chairman of Ingres Corporation, a leading relational database software company. Previously he was with McKinsey & Co. as a management consultant, with Tymshare in software development and management, and with Stanford University in software research and development. He received a BA from Harvard in 1970.

Shankar Sastry

Shankar Sastry has served on Crossbow's Board of Directors since 2007. Sastry is Dean of the College of Engineering and Nippon Electronics Corporation (NEC) Distinguished Professor in the College of Engineering and Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. Among Professor Sastry's areas of research interest are embedded and autonomous software, computer vision, and computation in novel substrates such as DNA, nonlinear and adaptive control, robotic telesurgery, control of hybrid systems, embedded systems, sensor networks and biological motor control. He is a current Director of CITRIS and a former Director of the Information Technology Office at DARPA. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Professor Sastry received his undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, and MS, MA and Ph.D from the University of California at Berkeley.

A. Richard Newton,
Chairman Emeritus

Crossbow mourns the passing in 2007 of our friend, co-founder and Chairman Emeritus, Richard Newton. Rich's unique contribution as a technical innovator, educator, visionary and entrepreneur has changed the landscape of the electronics industry. And, his influence extended into the most pressing social issues of the emerging world. Professor Newton was Dean of the College of Engineering and Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. In addition to Crossbow, Professor Newton founded a number of design technology companies, including SDA Systems, PIE Design Systems and Simplex Solutions (all now Cadence Design Systems), and Synopsys. He served on several boards, was a member of the ACM, a Fellow of the IEEE, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Professor Newton received B.Eng and M.Eng.Sci degrees from the University of Melbourne, Australia and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.

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