Aharon Nizani

Mooki Talby

is the Director, OEM Marketing – Americas offices of Creo POD.
Mooki, who had left Scitex and now came back, brings with him extensive experience in the traditional and digital printing markets. Before rejoining Creo in August 2003, Mooki served as the VP of Marketing for Textology, a start-up company that develops text analysis solutions for the news media and defense markets. Prior to that, he held various marketing, product management and business development positions at Creo and Scitex.

The Creo Print On-Demand Solutions group (Creo POD Solutions) develops and supports high-performance digital color servers for a range of digital printers and presses. It also develops advanced on-demand applications to enable the creation of personalized direct mail, targeted catalogs and other powerful one-to-one marketing communications tools. In September 2005, Creo POD Solutions emerged as an independent entity from the acquisition of (the Scitex Graphic Arts group, then called) Creo Inc., by Kodak’s Graphic Communications Group (GCG).
The Creo Print On-Demand Solutions group currently supplies digital workflow products to such industry leaders as Hewlett-Packard, IKON, Konica Minolta, and Xerox Corporation.
The group invests considerable resources in providing its partners and customers with the very best products, services and technologies to help them meet their specific goals.
As the independent portal for Kodak?s digital workflow solutions, Creo POD Solutions will continue to help its customers leverage their investment in digital print, and to spearhead the ?digital revolution?.

Steve Hoffenberg is Director, Consumer Imaging Research at Lyra Research.
Steve is responsible for Lyra’s market research in consumer digital imaging products and services and is the principal analyst for the Consumer Imaging Intelligence advisory service.
He has more than a decade of product management and market research experience in the digital imaging industry. He was the product manager for digital cameras at Leaf Systems (now a division of Eastman Kodak), one of the pioneering companies of the digital camera industry in the early 1990s.
He initially joined Lyra in 1996 as founding director of the Digital Photography Advisory Service.
In 2000, Steve became director of product management at Sound Vision Inc., an engineering firm that designed low-cost digital cameras and TV-centric digital imaging and audio products. He rejoined Lyra in 2004 and led the company’s research in the digital television market before returning to lead the Consumer Imaging Intelligence service. Steve was with Leaf near Boston, when Scitex acquired the digital imaging startup (See biography).
Founded in 1991, Lyra Research http://www.lyra.com is a provider of market, product, and technology information and analysis focused on the imaging industry. Lyra Research provides targeted information on printers and copiers, digital photography, and imaging supplies to more than 2,000 clients in more than 40 countries. Lyra’s portfolio of services includes leading industry newsletters, special market reports, advisory services, conferences, and custom consulting.

IDIT Technologies announced the promotion of its Executive VP, Sales and Marketing, the ExScite Yoel Amir.  to the position of CEO. Yoel has two years experience as CEO of the company’s European subsidiary IDIT Europe NV, I.D.I. Technologies. Prior to that, he served as CEO of Advanced Systems Europe and held a number of CIO positions in advanced international hi-tech companies, most notably Scitex Europe in Brussels.
IDIT Technologies is an international vendor of Enterprise Application Software for the administration and full life-cycle support of insurance products and financial services. IDIT’s flagship product is a fully implemented, comprehensive online system for the insurance industry.
IDIT is owned by the Israeli Formula Systems Group (NASDAQ: FORTY and TASE: FORT), a IT solutions provider and services company.

 Eyal Desheh is chief financial officer at Check Point Software, he is responsible for all Worldwide financial management including investor relations, financial and risk management, planning and reporting. Prior to joining the Check Point team in May 2000, Desheh served as chief financial officer for Scitex Corporation Ltd., a world leader in digital imaging solutions for graphics communications, where he managed all major financial functions including investor relations, risk management, mergers and acquisitions and legal affairs.
Before joining Scitex, he served in numerous finance management and business development roles including Vice President of Business Development and Strategy at Bezeq, The Israeli Telecommunications Corp., Deputy CFO of Teva Pharmaceuticals Ltd., President of H.L. Financial Services Ltd. and Vice President of Bank Hapoalim New York.

The Israeli company Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (www.checkpoint.com) is a leader in securing the Internet. Through its NGX platform, the company delivers a unified security architecture for a broad range of perimeter, internal, Web, and endpoint security solutions that protect business communications and resources for corporate networks and applications, remote employees, branch offices and partner extranets.

Since 2005, Avi Huppert is the CEO of Mempile.
Avi has held senior technical and mangement positions at Aprion, Scitex Israel output group and Israel Aircraft Industry.
Located near Jerusalem, Mempile developes a removable optical drive capable of storing one Terabyte (1,000 Gigabytes) of data on a single disc; two orders of magnitude more than what is available today. The company’s technology comprises both the disc itself and the drive required to read and write. Mempile’s discs will allow for fully secured storage of information and the application of robust digital rights management schemes; also, its discs have a much longer projected shelf-life than what is common today. Mempile has signed a number of cooperation agreements for the manufacturing and marketing of its products with major media and storage corporations.
Mempile was founded by Ortal Alpert CTO, in 2000. It raised about $27M from venture capital funds and strategic investors in three previous financing rounds.