William Mow

William C. W. Mow (Traditional Chinese: 毛昭寰; born 1936) is the former chairman and CEO of Bugle Boy Industries.

Mow was born in Hangchow, China, the son of Lieutenant General Mow Pang Tsu of the National Chinese Air Force. In May 1945, Pang Tsu was appointed as a member of the Sixth Kuomintang Central Executive Committee and eventually became a national government representative in the United States Aviation Committee and the United Nations Security Council. In 1949 his wife, Wong Ay Chuan, and five of his six sons (Van, Maurice, Donald, Harry and William) joined General Mow in Washington, DC, where they lived in diplomatic housing. His oldest son, David, stayed in Taiwan and served in the National Air Force. In the early '50s, Pang Tsu was involved in a highly public embezzlement scandal that pitted him against the Chiang Kai-shek government in Taiwan. He fled to Mexico, leaving his family behind in the US. Forced to leave diplomatic housing in Washington, DC, William, his mother and four brothers settled in Great Neck, NY. There they opened a small restaurant called the Yangtze River Cafe.

Mow earned a BSEE from Rensselaer Polytechnic, an MSEE from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and a Ph.D. from Purdue University. After earning his Ph.D., Mow spent the years from 1967 to 1969 working for Litton Industries as a program manager before forming his first business in 1969. It was a computer-controlled instrumentation firm called Microdata. Microdata designed new ways to test large-scale integrated computer chips. By 1974, Microdata had annual sales of $12 million. In the mid–1970s, Mow sold Microdata to Cutler-Hammer, a conglomerate located in Milwaukee. He remained on as chairman and CEO, but resigned after the new owners accused him of concealing $2 million worth of losses. Later, in 1988, a California court cleared Mow of any accusations and found that Cutler-Hammer had actually been responsible for concealing the sales loss.

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