Crossbow Founders
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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. |
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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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