Robin Hayman - Marketing & Product Management Director

"A Champion of New Products & Technologies" is how Robin Hayman sums up his 25 years experience in communications. Prior to joining SpliceCom, Hayman was a founding member of Network Alchemy, where he held the position of Sales & Marketing Manager. He spent his formative years introducing, marketing, selling and supporting LAN based products for "traditional" communications companies entering the LAN marketplace for the first time. These include Racal Milgo, Tricom, General Datacom and Network Systems Corp.

A chance meeting with John Birbeck & Sean Harding, who had just sold their ISDN router start-up company to US remote access specialists Xylogics, saw Hayman join up with the UK entrepreneurs in 1995. In a path that has great similarities with the Network Alchemy story, Xylogics were then acquired by Bay Networks, who themselves later merged with Nortel to become Nortel Networks.

However, it's through his work alongside Birbeck and Harding at Network Alchemy that most people will know Hayman. Founded in February 1997, acquired by SDX in May 1998, who themselves were then snapped up by Lucent Technologies in August of that year, only to be spun off as Avaya in October 2000, Network Alchemy proved to be the runaway success story of the late nineties. Looking back, Hayman views his major achievement at Network Alchemy as "blazing the trail" once again, this time through educating the channel on the benefits to be gained from selling voice & data convergence and IP Telephony to small and medium sized businesses. After assuming product management responsibilities for the Alchemy Series and IP Office, Hayman left Avaya in July of 2001 - his legacy being an installed base of over 16,000 systems!

An honours graduate in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Hayman put his considerable industry knowledge to good use in between life with Avaya and SpliceCom, as a regular contributor to Comms Business magazine, a Miles Group publication, where he contributed a monthly column - "Robin's Rant."