John Redding
Mr. Redding was trained as an electrical engineer and an applied mathematician at
Queen’s University (Canada), as well as an electrical engineer and a computer scientist
at MIT. While at Queen’s he was elected to the University Senate and represented 1600
Applied Science undergraduates for 2 years. Upon graduation from MIT he was
nominated for Sigma XI honors.
Since then, he has over 30 years of high technology experience as a serial entrepreneur,
an engineer, and an innovator.
Mr. Redding began his career as a Member of Technical Staff for Bell Northern Research
(Nortel), followed by Applications Engineering and then quickly advancing Senior Sales
and Marketing positions with Boschert (now Computer Products), ADAC, and Analog
Devices.
In 1980 he founded Redding Associates, a Manufacturer’s Representative and Systems
Integrator, the first such company to focus on Intel Multibus boards and the systems
based upon them, often UNIX based. Within 4 years he had bootstrapped to $10 million
in sales and was a dominant force in his marketplace within New England.
Following Redding Associates he was self-employed, initially as a Management
Consultant (mostly doing due-diligence and technology assessments to mid-size and
Fortune 1000 companies) and then as an Executive Recruiter (mostly supplying VPs or
C-Level employees for Senior Engineering and Marketing roles to high-tech companies).
In the mid-1990s he formed Sage Alliances - primarily as an outsourced developer of
turn-key products and technologies - thereby leveraging his abilities to build world-class
development teams, to architect systems, to manage the development process, and to
produce ‘best of breed’ products, technologies, and/or services for OEMs.
Some such developments included: a distributed firewall (Network 1 Security
Solutions) -- real-time and applications software for modems operating over AC
powerlines (Fyra Microsystems) -- an SS7 T1/E1 PCI based telecomms sub-system (LM
Ericcson, selected #1 from over 100 other competitors to develop, manufacture, and
support it) -- a PC based system and control unit for the real-time testing and precision
calibration of diabetes meters during high volume manufacturing (Nova Biomedical,
later Inverness Medical) -- an Ethernet networking ‘media-switching’ device that
handled twisted-pair, optical and coax connections (LanCast, now Metrobility Optical
Systems) -- the architecture for an ATM switch (Cignal Global Communications, now
Priority Telecom) -- analyzed and made recommendations for features and
functionality for the next generation a generalized telecomms ‘switch / fabric’ ASIC (C-
Port, now Motorola) -- software animations for an LED based sign (Sunrise Systems) --
a custom switching power supply (Sunrise Systems) -- real-time software for a magnetic
tape back-up system (MediaLogic) -- an innovative sign with ‘an airy feel’ utilizing
LEDs on a rotating arm (Clegg Industries, 2 patents). [in conjunction, Mr. Redding
architected and deployed an innovative website that allowed suppliers worldwide to
download CAD/CAM drawings and provide online quotes] ) -- an IBM-PC software
financial analysis and business planning product (Plans ‘n Totals). It received a perfect 4
stars by The Book of IBM Software, one of only a select few products to ever do so).
In 2002, he further leveraged his ability to build both products and teams - and began to
also build complete management teams, including the CEO - so the products and
technologies associated with him could be spun-off as complete turn-key companies.
Recently, during 2005, two spin-offs occurred - Automotive Communications Systems,
Inc. (ACS) and SubRosa Technologies Corp. Mr. Redding is Chairman of both
companies.
ACS www.autocomms.com is focused on advanced radios and wireless
networking technology for the automotive industry. Two patents related to
‘relative positioning’ and ‘network contention during emergencies’ are pending.
Redding recruited its exceptional engineering team - summarized at
http://www.autocomms.com/team.htm
SubRosa is a provider of 2-factor strong user-authentication and authorization
cellphone based products, and will offer a managed-service. One patent is
pending.
Currently ready to spin-off, is another product, based upon a stock trading methodology
he conceived with foundations in applied mathematics and classical control theory. It
makes stock picks and predicts short-term and medium-term prices. In parallel, it
produces a dynamic display of the fastest risers and fastest tankers on Nasdaq ‘as it
happens’ with very low latency. Development of a trader workstation product for
hedge-funds has begun.
In parallel, during the same 202-2005 time-period, he also advanced a malware-
eliminator appliance for cellphone networks as well as conceived and architected a
enterprise network security-systemwide-analysis software product.
Recently, as a capstone endeavor, Mr. Redding conceived of and founded The Sage
Exchange, Inc. www.thesageexchange.com . ‘The Exchange’ is: An exchange for buying
and selling of services, products, technologies, professional services, intellectual property,
business concepts, and so forth. An ‘efficient market’ for monetizing them and for driving new
company formation associated with them. ™ . It’s website is in ‘alpha’. In parallel, in stealth
mode, an e-commerce website is being developed.
Mr. Redding is a member of NECINA.org, TIE.org, MVVF.org, and SENG-NE.org.