[March 30, 2004] Sharp Rise in Commercial Deployments of Crossbow's Wireless Sensor Networks Prompts VP of Sales Hire SAN FRANCISCO --(Business Wire)-- March 30, 2004 -- Crossbow Technology, Inc., a leading wireless mesh networking company at the forefront of providing anywhere anytime wireless networking solutions today announced it has appointed Samuel M. Godwin as Vice President of Sales. Godwin, a twenty-year sales veteran comes to Crossbow from Doublewide Software, a provider of embedded super system virtualization software backed by U.S. Venture Partners and Walden International, where he was VP of Sales. Previously, he was Director of Sales for Wind River Systems, the worldwide leader in embedded platforms used in multiple markets including aerospace and defense, automotive, digital consumer, industrial and network infrastructure. Godwin will report to Crossbow CEO, Mike Horton. He will be working alongside long time company veteran and former dual head of sales and business development, John Crawford who holds the title of VP of Business Development, adding muscle to the company's escalating geographic, application, and sector expansion. Our ability to deliver a combination of superior reliability and scalability along with a unified platform for extension into next generation wireless networks has led to an upsurge in demand for our networking products, said Horton. Sam will be responsible for building a systems and market sector focused sales organization to support and propel our growth, continued Horton. Under his leadership, the business segments that Sam oversaw at Wind River Systems grew by twenty times in an eight year period. His track record managing worldwide sales in an emerging technology market experiencing exponential growth will be invaluable to Crossbow. Crossbow's first to market advantage and its leading position as the only provider of fully battery operated, self-forming wireless mesh networking solutions, has allowed it to alone deliver industrial strength network performance, reliability and quality amongst a field of newly-minted competitors, said Godwin. I was excited to join Crossbow because of its singular foothold in the Fortune 100 market and the fact that new products in the Company's pipeline have gone through long term testing and validation by large customers in real-world settings. Crossbow has a proven ability to deliver full blown solutions and support to their customers globally, continued Godwin, making them the most viable systems provider in the smart dust sector. Previously, Godwin worked in various sales capacities at Spectron Microsystems, Cadre Technologies and Tektronix, beginning his career as a Test Engineer at Optimem. Godwin received his BS in Computer Science from North Georgia College & State University. Founded in 1995, the company's wireless mesh networking products have been deployed to enable ubiquitous sensing and actuation in a broad range of indoor and outdoor environments and facilities for such applications as environmental, seismic, structural, power and security monitoring; factory, building and process automation as well as asset tracking. The combination of advanced sensing, processing and radio communications technologies developed by Crossbow, including its enhancements to the TinyOS open source operating system, provide efficiency and reliability superior to previous generation star, hybrid star and partially battery powered mesh network-based operating platforms. The company's Gateway (Stargate) and interface products (MIB) allow customers to interface its intelligent sensors to PCs, PDAs, the WWW and existing wired networks and protocols. Crossbow is also the leading supplier of MEMS-based gyro products for air, land and sea-based applications. Crossbow is headquartered in San Jose, California and has distributors in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]