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Beni_Fish

 

Beni Fish

Beni Fish

Beni Fish has recently joined XMPie as VP Service and Support, EMEA /APAC.
Beni is an Ex STA as Eastern Regional Manager, EX STE as UK Customer Support Manager and EX STCL as director of ICS. All in all he spent 18 years with Scitex. Prior to XMPie he worked at Comverse, Vocaltec, ECI telecom and Eldor.
XMPie Inc. is a provider of software for dynamic publishing. Its variable data publishing (VDP) solutions help businesses efficiently design and produce highly personalized marketing materials. The software produces on-demand, targeted 1:1 marketing communications in print, e-mail and Web.  XMPie bridges design, data and printing functions to enable a collaborative production workflow and streamlines document ordering and customization with flexible Web-to-Print applications. XMPie is headquartered in New York with operations in the US, Europe and Israel.

ExScite meeting in Tokyo

n international strategic consulting and also an executive consultant at Symantec Japan (Tomono San could not join us but Nizani met him a day before the ExScite meeting in Ropongi. His photo has been added to the large image, using the magic of digital imaging).
All the above live and work in Tokyo.

In addition:
* Rami Liron-  who lives both in Tokyo and in Israel represents a few Israeli companies in Japan, among them XMPie and Babylon.
* Aharon Nizani-  whose visit to Tokyo has been the trigger for this rare get-together, lives in Irvine California, where he manages his own consulting company Strategic Business Consulting.

ExScites @ Spectrum-Dynamics

Spectrum_Dynamics_bunchSpectrum Dynamics is a pioneering medical device company specializing in the development and implementation of innovative molecular functional imaging technology, accessories and applications.  The company was founded in early 2000 and is located near Haifa, Israel. Spectrum Dynamics’ medical imaging technology is able to detect abnormalities as small as a few mm in size with very high sensitivity, significantly shortening the functional imaging procedure, and enabling dynamic imaging and compartmental analysis of various pathologies.

Three of ExScite finest hold key positions there:

Michael Nagler PhD., is the company’s general manager & COO since 2003. Miki had been the co-founder and CEO of Aprion, which was later merged with Scitex Vision and now is a division at HP inkjet group. As the Scitex Corporate VP and General Manager, Product Divisions, he managed a group of six product divisions. Earlier he was VP R&D at Iris Graphics, a Scitex division in Boston.

Haim Melman is the VP R&D since 2004. Haim joined Spectrum Dynamics following a 15-year career at Scitex Corporation Ltd. At Scitex, he held the position of Director of R&D for the corporation’s Input Systems Division. Haim also served as the Chairman of The CMOS Technical Committee, part of the MAGNET project of the Israeli Ministry of Industry and Commerce. In addition, his experience in the medical imaging equipment industry includes developing digital angiography systems at Elscint, Ltd. and as VP R&D at Orex Computed Radiology, Ltd.
Prior to joining Spectrum Dynamics, Haim has also co-founded and managed InfoBit, Ltd. and JetPic, Inc., operating in knowledge management and marketing software solutions.
Thirteen patents have been published based on his work.
Yossi Kamir is the company’s R&D Lab Supervisor. he has 18 years of experience as R&D Lab Supervisor at Scitex, input & output devices, Cubital 3D, Creo Scitex, Aprion and was the co-founder of VaryFrame.

Eric_Freer

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAEric J. Freer (ExScite STA) is the founder and CEO of Evolution Management Partners, www.usemp.com.  Evolution Management Partners is a global consulting and professional service firm with a focus on the medical, life science and healthcare industry. Evolution advises companies on issues of sales, marketing, strategy, organization, technology, and operations in emerging markets.
Evolution Management Partners  www.usemp.com provides focused and comprehensive solutions for the complex challenges that manufacturers and marketers contend with in the evolving and highly competitive medical, life sciences and healthcare industry. Evolution assists their clients during each phase of the business cycle. Beginning with conceptualization and funding, through early evaluation and strategic marketing and later through development and future commercialization.

Dani Rosenthal

Dani_RosenthalDani Rosenthal is the founder and managing director of Selenium Verification Technologies Ltd.
Dani has 25 years experience in software development and R&D management in leading Israeli high tech companies. Dani held the position of Vice President R&D at Oradnet Ltd., a spin-off of Orad and Intel in the immersive sport webcasting industry. Prior to this, Dani was the co-founder and R&D software manager of Portalis Ltd., a start-up in the digital printing industry. In addition, Dani spent 13 years at Scitex Corp. as a software engineer and R&D group leader.
Selenium Verification Technologies provides automatic software verification solutions for the software escrow industry. EscrowSafeTM, Selenium’s solution, is a suite of software applications enabling reliable, automatic, fast and cost effective Software Escrow Deposit generation and verification, upon first-time deposit and any later update.

ExScite dinner in the Boston Area (2006)

Here is another colage of pictures from the last ex-Scitex dinner in the Boston Area. (held on Tuesday May 2nd 2006). Click on the picture for full resolution display.

In the pictures you will see (from left to right):

Top Picture: Anne Abbey, Bev Chiarelli, Fabio, Mike Kinnucane

Middle picture: Pete McLaughlin, Rich Thies, Jeanie Rizzo, Hugo Flores, Joe Suarez, Zvi Jalfin, Bob Hill

Bottom picture: Dr. Allan Comeau, Paul (the Q) Quandt, Howard the White, Lynn Voytershark, Aron Blume, Jay Bergeron, Bill Gollooly, Jeff Rosenbaum

As always, if any of you are in the area, we meet on the first Tuesday of every month at 6:30pm – so please join us. You’ll be more than welcome. Contact Mike Kinnucane (mikekinnucane@charter.net ) or Aron Blume (aronblume@yahoo.com ) for more details.

We challenge all you other ExScites to send us YOUR group meeting photos too.

Ed_Chrusciel

Edward_Chrusciel_08New Hampshire-based Dimatix/Spectra Inc., announced that it has named the ExScite Edward T. Chrusciel to the newly formed position of Marketing Director. In his role, he will be responsible for overseeing the company?s marketing, brand building and communications as well as driving expansion into new markets.See press release here.
Most recently, Ed was Director of Consumable Products at Iris Graphics, a Scitex/Creo Company, where he was responsible for its entire line of ink and paper products. Before iris, he was also with Hell and Optonics.
Dimatix is a developer and manufacturer of high-performance ink jet printheads and components used in a broad range of industrial, non-impact imaging applications through its Spectra Printing Division. The Dimatix Materials Deposition Division is evolving ink jetting technology into a production process that lowers the cost, time and environmental impact of producing electronic circuits and functions for RFID tags, flat panel displays, circuit boards and other electronic and bioscience applications. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif.; its Spectra division is located in Lebanon, New Hampshire; and its customer base is worldwide.

Leaf Camera model

Ronit Konfidian was the photo model during the preparation of an article about the Leaf R&D group in Israel in 1999. Click on the picture to see a leaf Volare “contact sheet” image on a Mac screen.

These days, Ronit is marketing manager at (Scitex) Kodak in Herzlia.

Oded Rose

Oded Rose is VP Marketing at Atlantium.
Prior to Atlantium he was Managing Director of Aurum Ventures, a key shareholder in Atlantium. In Aurum Oded led investments in the life sciences and telecom infrastructure areas. Prior to joining Aurum, Oded was a General Partner of Walden, an international venture capital group. There he focused and led investments in the communications infrastructure area. Before Walden Oded was a Senior Associate in the Communications practice of Booz Allen & Hamilton, a management consulting firm based in New York. Prior to that Oded worked for eight years in the R&D division of Scitex Corp. in Israel.
Founded in 2003Atlantium develops and provides water disinfection solutions that help businesses and municipalities  build, expand and operate water-intensive processes using UV water disinfection method. 
Read more in Business Week article: Israel: Waterworks for the World? and IsraCast article: Out of the box- safer water

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