Moog Crossbow Management

Mike A Horton
General Manager, Moog Aircraft Group Sector - Sensor

Mike Horton leads Moog Aircraft Group Sensor Business, co-founded Crossbow Technology Inc. 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.
Ralph Kling
Chief Technology Officer

Ralph Kling is the most senior technical member of Crossbow's management team, and joined Crossbow is 2006. Kling is responsible for leading the engineering team at Crossbow and for related efforts for new product strategies, technical directions, and standards activities. Prior to Crossbow, Kling spent 16 years at Intel Corporation where he pioneered Intel's creation of the Imote1 and Imote2 platforms as Director of the Sensor Network Organization, and was instrumental in developing certain aspects of Intel's 64-bit Itanium family of microprocessors. Kling is an inventor on over 20 pending and issued United States patents. Kling is a Fulbright Scholar from Germany, and received both Masters and PhD degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Peter Padar
Vice President of Quality and Operations

Peter Padar is responsible for Crossbow's total commitment to customer satisfaction, Quality, Operations and IT infrastructure, and joined Crossbow in 2007. Padar brings 22 years of experience in establishing and strengthening global quality programs, with exposure to quality management systems and issues on every major continent of the world. Most recently, Padar was at Elma Electronics, a global manufacturer of products for housing electronics systems. Prior to that, Padar was with ELSA AG, a German company that designs and produces computer graphics boards and telecommunication products. Padar is a graduate of Technical College of Aachen, Germany with a BS in Electrical Engineering. He is also a certified QM-Auditor and QM-Manager by TUV Rheinland, Germany.

Del Balan
Director of Finance

Del Balan has supported High Tech companies in the area of Finance for over 20 years. Balan is well versed in the development of financial programs, establishing international reporting and merger transactions, including SEC reporting and revenue planning. Since joining Crossbow in 2008, Balan has implemented several improvements to the financial transactions procedures and reassessed the Corporate Audit process, resulting in higher efficiencies and significant cost savings. Prior to this position, Balan was the Controller at Electroglas, Inc. Balan has supported several Fortune 100 companies in his career, including Credence Systems, Sun Microsystems, and Applied Materials. Balan received his BS in Commerce from the Far Eastern University in Manila, Philippines.

Anelle A. Jackson
Director of Human Resources

Anelle Jackson joined Crossbow in 2008 and has over 10 years of HR Experience.  Jackson oversees all aspects of Human Resources including Recruitment & Retention, Performance Management, Benefits Administration, Employee Relations, Training, and Compliance programs. Jackson re-organized the HR department by implementing automated systems to reduce paper intensive procedures thereby bringing the company to compliance for several EEOC and Labor Law requirements.  Before Crossbow, Jackson worked in the Human Resources groups of Safeway Corporate and Sanmina-SCI. Jackson holds a BS Degree in Business Management from the University of Phoenix and is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).

 

 

 

 

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