Aharon Nizani

Ilan Barak on Kan Akiva

On April 9 we posted at ExScite/Nostalgia a picture of the 1970’s Scitex product- Kan Akiva (Scitex then still was Scientific Technology). The picture was taken during a field trial on the top of Mount Meron, in Northern Israel.
The giant device was later sold to the Israeli government research arm Refael and was installed in the Southern part of the Israeli desert, the Negev. That picture at ExScite.net has brought fond memories to Ilan Barak. In the early 70’s Ilan had been the Kan Akiva operator at Refael before he joined Scitex. So, Ilan searched through his personal files, found and sent us this picture of him operating the system in the Negev.
YOU too, if your have nostalgic pictures with a story behind them, Email us.

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Ronen Sobel joined HumanEyes as VP Graphic Arts Sales after 11 years at Scitex and Creo where he served, at different periods, in executive positions in the United States, and Asia Pacific. Ronen more recently served as Vice President of sales at View Links Ltd, a company specializing in the fraud detection for the financial institutes.
The Jerusalem based HumanEyes Technologies provide solutions for combining 3D stereo and panorama, previously considered impossible.
HumanEyes Board of Directors includes Chairman Benny Landa (founder and former CEO of Indigo – now HP), Yoav Chelouche (former CEO of Scitex).

The Kan Akiva team at work on the Hermon

The first product of Scientific Technology (the predecessor of Scitex) was the Kan Akiva– a missile tracking system. Designed and integrated 37 years ago, Kan Akiva included a fantastic collection of technologies, analog electronics, large format reflective optics, high precision mechanics in accurate servo control loop and under radar control. The system was financed by the Israeli defense budget and was delivered to the Israeli army intelligence. It worked in the field for more than 20 years.
The picture was taken atop one of the highest mountains in Israel, Har Meron.
Look at the legs, and the sun tan!!!!.
From left to right: Israel Perl (?), Moshe Broudo, Aharon Nizani. The big white monster in the front is a 12” diameter 5000mm focal length Jonel reflective telescope. Its smaller “brother” purple, on the right, is a Questar 2000mm reflective telescope.
If you have additional nostalgic information and pictures about those glory days, please Email me.
For additional information, see the ExScite/Nostalgia posting from Dec 20, 2004 here.

Printar

Founded in 1999, Printar of Rehovot Israel, supplies digital printing equipment and consumable chemicals for the PCB industry. Printar market sector focus is on digital printing technologies for PCB manufacturing.
Like many Israeli technology start ups, Printar is also proud to present a strong management team composed of a number of ExScite?s.

Amir Noy – CEO since September 2006. Prior to that, he served as CEO of Sunlight Medical, Ltd., a medical equipment company. From 1994 to 2001 he worked for NUR Macroprinters as VP R&D, VP Marketing and since 1999 as the President of the Asia subsidiary. Before Nur, Amir was at Scitex Israel.
Ron Zohar – President and founder of Printar, defined and initiated the company?s products from scratch to worldwide sales in all PCB market geographic segments. From 1977 ? 1999 Zohar worked for Scitex-Idanit and from 1985 ? 1997 he held various R&D and business development positions at Optrotech and later at Orbotech.
Ori Gerson ? VP Operations joined Printar in 2004 and is in charge of production, logistic, applications & customer support departments. He held various senior positions in Laser industry and Scitex Vision, including VP of operations for the past 19 years.
Albert Yafe– VP R&D Systems joined Printar in 2005 and is in charge of system research and development. Prior to that he held various senior management positions at Scitex and Orbotech for over 25 years. Among others, he was corporate VP R&D at Orbotech and CTO at Orbotech Ventures.
Nachum Korman – President North America & Europe joined Printar in December 2006. Before joining Printar, he was the President of American operations for Nur Marcoprinters. Previous to that, he held a number of senior positions at Nur, including the President of NUR Europe S.A. Mr. Korman began his career at Elbit and Optrotec in Belgium, and also worked for Scitex Europe S.A. as sales and logistics manager.
In addition, the late Ami Caspi (see ExScite/News, Mar 24, 2007) was a Director at the company until he passed away in March 2007.
In the picture from left to right: Amir, Ron, Ori, Albert and Nachum

STA guys run at Corporate Challenge Road Race

Lee Ann Torigian has sent us this old picture from the 1980’s.

This macho group of STA guys entered the Corporate Challenge Road Race and this is how they looked after they crossed the finish line.
Pictured from left to right are: Dani Herzka, Unknown (Help), Kip Cooper, Kevin Kennedy, Richard Wells, Chuck Stewart and Bob Bradford.
Lee Ann is currently with Chantry Networks Corp., A Siemens Company in Chelmsford, MA

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Lior ofer

Lior Ofer is the Director of Global Support at the software company Ex Libris. He is responsible for the service organization worldwide.
Until 2002 Lior was the Director of Business Development ? Professional services at ECI Telecom and before that he was director of Customer Services at ECI
Between 1988 and 1996 Lior held various positions at Scitex, including:
* Managing the support organization in the Pacific Rim, which served over 500 customers and 20 agents,
* Regional Support Manager at STA, responsible for the service operation in southeast USA,
* Installation Manager
The Ex Libris Group is a worldwide supplier of software solutions and related services for libraries and information centers. The Company’s product line has been customized to serve users’ functional and linguistic needs in more than 20 languages. Staff resources currently consist of more than 280 employees worldwide, with a core development team that includes both highly qualified librarians and expert software engineers. Ex Libris is represented in 24 countries across six continents. Local distributors provide sales, project management, and support operations.

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The ExScite Thomas Metzeler has founded Arados Consulting in December 2006, operating from Brussels.
Thomas is a professional IT consultant specialized in the area of data management, identity management and information lifecycle management and architects solutions to meet the complex strategic and technical challenges of today’s data and storage management.
Thomas joined STE as application engineer in 1996, after working for several years at Druma, a Scitex reseller in Austria. He then moved to Israel in 2000 where was the technical product manager for the server and data-management products. After Creo had merged with Scitex, he moved back to Europe and started as a storage management consultant for several large enterprises, primarily in Central and Northern-Europe. Since December 2006 he is the general manager of Arados Consulting and provides his expertise and experience in consultancy engagement.
Arados Consulting provides consultancy in the following areas: Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) , Storage Management, Storage Infrastructure Strategy and Architecture, Storage Consolidation, Business Continuance, Audits.
Arados partners with the best providers of data storage infrastructure and of data security content, such as Hitachi Data Systems and Sun Microsystems.

Agfa chose Magicomm (Littrell) to develop a campaign

2007 PODi Best Practices Award

to the ExScite Rick Littrel, founder and president of Magicomm

Amesbury, MA – FEBRUARY 19, 2007 – PODi, the Digital Printing Initiative, has presented Magicomm with its 2007 Best Practices Award in the Relevant Marketing category for an innovative multi-touch targeted direct mail campaign developed for their client Agfa Graphics, an international supplier of integrated prepress solutions to the printing industry. Agfa chose Magicomm to develop a campaign to increase market awareness and generate qualified leads for their ThermoFuse offset plate line. The 120 day campaign included 5 key components and drew an impressive response rate of 5.67%, which exceeded the projected goals by 360%.

Magicomm’s proven leadership in integrated variable data marketing campaigns continues to gain industry recognition for their approach – and for delivering bottom line results for their client’s. “We are thrilled to receive this prestigious award from PODi,” said Rick Littrell, President and CMO of Magicomm. “As early adopters of digital variable data printing (VDP) technologies, we take pride in our ability to create effective and successful multi-touch campaigns for our clients. Our use of leading edge tools and strategies allows us to communicate our client’s message with improved relevance, which increases results.”
PODi’s annual Best Practices international competition is judged by a panel of industry experts in the field of digital printing. Awards were chosen based on relevance in copy, imagery, and offer, in combination with the overall creativity of the campaign.

Mike Ross’ digital art

The ExScite Mike Ross has Emailed us a link to his latest art from San Diego CA.

Click here to watch a video of a creative dynamic rendition of a similar picture.

You can see more of Mike’s digital art at his personal website

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Dror Haroush is the Chief of Operations at Marketbee technology; California based company that provides Product Lifecycle Management and Portfolio Management solutions that supports the enterprise product development processes. In his role Dror is responsible for the company business and technology development, clients? services and field operations activities. He is also involved in all sales and consulting activities within the company.
Before joining Marketbee Dror was a Vice President of professional services at Noosh Inc. A California based cross-enterprise e-business software solutions Company that focused on enterprise supply chain. Before that Dror held several positions in R&D management and Services management during his six years with Scitex in Israel and Europe, between 1993 and 1999.. In his last position, as part of the management team of Scitex digital printing division, he managed the division?s International Services groups in Europe, North America and Japan.
Marketbee of San Mateo CA, is a part of Eshbel Technologies, an enterprise software solution provider and represents its solutions in the U.S. Marketbee applies Eshbel’s domain expertise and technology to provide integrated software management solutions for commercial and industrial business organizations worldwide and to support the unique needs of research and development organizations. Eshbel Technologies is a provider of Enterprise Resource Management solutions.

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