Aharon Nizani

Nathan_Yakobovitch

Nathan R. Yakobovitch has been promoted to VP Global Strategic Purchasing at Nice. Nathan joined Scitex Israel in May 1985 as a student. Over the years he served in different positions in Material Management and Purchasing and left Scitex after 11 years. Nathan joined NICE (he was brought in by Roni

Nathan R. Yakobovitch

Zomber, another Ex Scitex) as Purchasing Manager, later became Director of Global Purchasing, and now promoted to be Vice President of Global Strategic Purchasing.
NICE Systems (NASDAQ: NICE) is a provider of Interactions solutions and value-added services, powered by advanced analytics of unstructured multimedia content ? from telephony, web, radio and video communications. NICE?s solutions address the needs of the enterprise and security markets, enabling organizations to operate in an insightful and proactive manner, and take immediate action to improve business and operational performance and ensure safety and security. Headquatered in Raanana Israel, NICE has over 24,000 customers in 100 countries, including over 85 of the Fortune 100 companies.

Nice has a nice contingent of ExScite?s– no wonder it is a successful company. We have the following members registered in our ExScite members? list. PleaseEmail usif you know of any changes, encourage ExScite?s who are not on the list to register and current members to update themselves.
Anat Shem-Or, Avron Moss, Carmela Avner (Marcovici), Francoise NALE-WISLITSKI, Haim Shani, Ronit Barr, Ronit Kahana Goodman, Sasi Yehezkel, Shlomo Shamir, shmuel yohay, Zvi Wrobel

The CEO and CFO of the Israeli company Lumenis are ExScite?s.
Dov Ofer joined the company as CEO Earlier in 2007. Before Lumenis, Dov held the position of Corporate VP and General Manager of HP-Scitex. Until the acquisition by HP, he served as the CEO of Scitex Vision Ltd, the (then) Scitex inkjet printers division in Israel. Prior to joining Scitex Vision, Dov managed Matan Digital Printing, one of the pioneering companies in the super-wide format printing industry.
Lauri A. Hanover joined Lumenis as Senior VP and Chief Financial Officer in August 2004. Prior to Lumenis, she served as Corporate Vice President and CFO for NICE Systems Ltd., and was instrumental in effecting a rapid turnaround through improved financial processes and controls, as well as strong working capital management. Prior to NICE, she served as Executive Vice President and CFO of Sapiens International. She also spent 13 years at Scitex Corporation Ltd., and 3 years at Altria (Philip Morris) Inc.
Headquartered in Yokneam Israel, Lumenis is a global developer, manufacturer and seller of laser, light- and radiofrequency-based devices for medical, aesthetic, ophthalmic, dental and veterinary applications. The Company offers a wide range of products along with extensive product support systems including training, education and service. Lumenis invests heavily in research and development to maintain and enhance its leading industry position. The Company holds numerous patents worldwide on its technologies.

Knitted fabric- first Japanese customer in Osaka- 1976

Among his Shmates the ExScite Yigal Maharal discovered this gem. This picture is of a double-knit fabric, which was produced on a circular knitting machine, driven by a digital image from the Scitex Response system. Yigal received this knit sample while visiting Fukuhara in Osaka, one of the first customers of Scitex in Japan in 1976.
Click on the picture to see details.

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Hana_Benshabat

Hana Ben-Shabat – ex STE marketing director was promoted to Vice President and Partner with A.T. Kearney Limited. She is based in their London office and leading the UK Retail Practice.
A.T.Kearney is a global management consulting firm, www.atkearney.com

Malki & Bernadette, the first STE employees

In the beginning there was only Itzik Malki.
The flamboyant Italian engineer was the first and only service engineer in Europe at the time. STE has just been established. The service “office” and the entire continent’s spare parts stock was in Itzik’s car’s trunk. He was traveling, putting fires, all over Europe from his base in Italy. And servicing the Scitex equipment in those early 70’s days was very difficult indeed, with unreliable wire-wrapped circuit-boards and very big card cages, not to mention the software which was loaded by paper tape!. He used to submit his expense report for reimbursement about once a year?
In the picture (taken by Aharon Nizani)- Itzik cooks lunch for Bernadette at her home. Bernadette was the first secretary in STE’s office in Brussels (which was located near Garr DeMidi).
Malki is not in the ExScite database and we have lost track of him. If you know is whereabouts, or how to contact him please let me know.

Doron Gill

The ExScite Doron Gill is VP R&D at SupportSpace.
Doron Gill has 20 years of experience managing software development. Before joining SupportSpace , Doron was the General Manager of Mercado Software, where he managed the technology center and was an integral part of the company’s growth and before that he was senior VP of R&D for Jacada (NASDAQ: JCDA). Doron served as executive VP of R&D and General Manager of the Tel-Aviv office of Gizmoz, formerly Zapa Digital Arts. He previously held a variety of development management positions with Scitex Corporation.
SupportSpace of Netanya, Israel is an online consumer tech-support company providing users with high quality, easy to use, community based service. Founded in 2006, SupportSpace has developed a unique technology platform designed to address the problems associated with the rapid adoption of new technologies to the home. All experts share one platform for support management and delivery, collaborating with a common knowledge base, shared diagnostic, self-healing and communication tools. SupportSpace marks the advent of a new era in tech support.

Peres speakes at the opening of Efi Arazi School of Computer Science

The guest speaker at a party last month for Scitex’s founder Efi at the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science, in Herzlia, Israel, was Shimon Peres.
Peres, a member of the Israeli parliament and a candidate for president. In the picture here, Efi guides Peres on a tour in Computer Science School.
Click on the picture to see Mr. Peres speaks at the party.

Homi Shamir

Nachum Homi Shamir

Homi Shamir

, is the CEO of Given Imaging. Prior to Given, he has served as Corporate VP of Kodak and as the President of Eastman Kodak?s Transaction and Industrial Solutions Group, which includes several business units, including Kodak Versamark, Inc. (whose operations were previously those of SDP Scitex Digital Printing Inc.). Homi was President of SDP. Prior thereto, he was Managing Director and General Manager of Scitex Digital Printing (Asia Pacific) Pte Ltd.
Given Imaging is developing, producing and marketing innovative, patient-friendly products for detecting gastrointestinal disorders. The company is developing a complete line of PillCam video capsules for detecting disorders of the gastrointestinal tract and provides visual examination of the esophagus, has been cleared for marketing by the FDA.

Nizani rides Kan Akiva

On April 9 we posted here a nice picture of the first product- Kan Akiva, of Scientific Technology (later renamed Scitex). A couple of weeks later on April 19 we received and posted another picture, which was Emailed to us by the (then) customer Ilan Barak. Well now, nowsome else has come out of the woodwork…. Jacob Laor (who worked on the elcronic system) has Emailed this picture of Aharon Nizani (who worked on the optical system) sitting in control.

I hope that these pictures trigger pleasent memories, and YOU TOO would send us historical pictures.

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Rami Hascal

The ExScite Rami Hascal has joined H.T PROF. Israel recruting. Rami who had been with Scitex in Israel and in Boston for over 14 years, lives in Newton MA.
We hope that Rami will regulary post job opportunities for our ExScite members at the ExScite Resume Section.
He wrote us:
I am glad to inform you that I joined H.T PROF. Israel (www.htprof.com), an Atlanta based executive search firm dedicated to help Israeli companies to recruit key personnel, executive and technical, in the USA.
As you might guess, my twenty-odd years in the USA, understanding the subtle differences of how business is conducted in Israel and in America, will be a major contribution to Israeli companies as they recruit key management and technical personnel for their US based operation.
HT Prof. Israel has extensive track record of placing key personnel for US-Israeli based companies. I have attached a one page document describing the services provided by the company.
I will be working from my home office so please feel free to use my contact information as it appears below:
Rami Hascal, Principal Email: rami@htprof.com
US office- H.T PROF. Israel
Tel: (Office) 617-916-0028 (Mobile) 617-233-4059

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