Sean Harding - CEO

Sean Harding, founder and Managing Director of SpliceCom, has consistently utilised advances in technology to successfully develop products which address real market needs. Since starting his career in data communications in the early 80's, Harding has successfully founded and sold three communications companies.

Harding's first commercial venture was Infinite Networks in 1991. A UK technology start-up responsible for developing the first commercially successful ISDN LAN bridges, Infinite's products were also licensed to Bob Jones's Cirencester based Sonix Communications, who were subsequently bought by 3Com in May 1995. Prior to this Harding had started a second company, Scorpion Logic, in 1993, this time to attack the ISDN access routing market. The company's innovative CLAM, pocket-sized ISDN router, was voted "Hot Product of the Year" by McGraw Hill's influential Data Communications International magazine within 3 months of its launch. Infinite Networks was then acquired by Scorpion Logic, and both product lines were merged successfully. Acquisition by US remote access market leaders Xylogics in April 1995 was followed quickly by Xylogics purchase by Bay Networks (now Nortel Networks) in December of that year. Following the purchase Scorpion became Bay's European development and manufacturing facility. With Harding as Vice President, Bay successfully launched Scorpion's products - the Nautica Series - into the US, Asia and Australasia, in addition to their existing European sales. 

Harding left Bay Networks in February 1997 to start Network Alchemy and so re-discover the dynamics and excitement of running a start-up company, this time with the new vision to converge data communications and telephony at the desktop. Network Alchemy's revolutionary Argent Office, Argent Branch and CyberGear Gold product lines combined telephone system, internet connectivity, remote access and LAN distribution in a single, scalable system for small to medium sized businesses. This original "office-in-a-box" communications architecture, again picked-up Data Communications International magazine's "Hot Product of the Year" award. Network Alchemy was then purchased by SDX Business Systems in May 1998, and, in a parallel with Harding's earlier venture, SDX were themselves purchased by Lucent Technologies in August 1998. The products and the business have now been fully merged into the Avaya organisation, which was spun-off from Lucent in October 2000. Having overseen Network Alchemy's explosive growth, an installed base of over 16,000 systems, introduction into over 15 territories and major OEM agreements with BT and Iwatsu of Japan, Harding left the company in early 2001.

Previously, Harding gained extensive Research & Development experience as Technical Director for Network Management Systems Ltd and as LAN Development Manager for Case-Dowty Communications. He started his career at Case Communications.