Aharon Nizani

The ExScite Rami Gilboa has combined his two areas of great interest- food/cooking with open-terrain/Jeeps and published a great book.

“THE SALT OF THE EARTH- cooking outside with the best Israeli chefs” is a great looking book, with fantastic photography and mouth-watering recipes. The book (for now- published only in Hebrew) can be found at book stores but unfortunately can not be purchased online yet.
Rami has told us that making the book provided him with a lot of fun and personal satisfaction. Rami has been the photographer, the writer as well as the Jeep driver. For several months he took leading Israeli chefs and drove with them to the hills and deserts in Israel. He had arranged the location with wood fire for them and they cooked their masterpieces on the open fire.
Rami says: “it was great experience and fun (including my almost becoming “Journaliste Flambee”, when the oil caught fire, big time…)”
For our Hebrew readers:
Click here  to see the books table of content.
Click here to see the recipe for Foyka.

You can see additional stories about Rami’s other crazy hobby by scrolling back the ExScite/Gossip to the 2001 postings of March 10 and Nov 25.

The ExScite Alon Avnon  founded a business consulting in London UK.
Park Road Associates  tag line is: “Management buy-in of printing & imaging businesses”. It was created to: Acquire a promising imaging business; Restructure the business to achieve its full potential; Manage it; and Exit when ready.
From 1997 to January 2001, he served as Managing Director of NUR Europe S.A and later as Nur’s corporate VP, business development. Before joining NUR, Alon served as VP Marketing at Scidel Ltd., where he established that company’s European office. Prior to that, he was Director of Marketing at Scitex Europe S.A., where he was responsible for developing the company’s presence in the photographic (Leaf and Iris) and offset printing industries.

Hanan Drory one of the longest surviving ExScite at the ever-changing  Scitex (Israel/ Australia/ Japan)/ Creo/ HP has been recently interviewed on the Israeli radio service.
We have picked the broadcast over the Internet .

To hear click here. (the audio will take a a few seconds to start- so stay tuned).

The ExScite Yuval Rahamim is the founder and general manager of FORMA Group, a company specializing in the development and ongoing implementation of effective marketing communications schemes for Israeli hi-tech companies.
Joining Scitex (Herzlia) in 1997 as a webmaster in the “great Marcom department”, Yuval broadened the boundaries of the corporate web site to reflect the dynamic presence of the company and its units in the pre-press arena. “It was then, in the Scitex Marcom Department, with its global reaches, when I realized the essential role of an effective marketing communications team to the sales performance of an Israeli technology-oriented company” says Yuval.
After leaving Scitex, Yuval served in several start up companies as Internet team leader, Marcom manager, and finally as Marcom Director at VocalTec. Adds yuval “Leaving VocalTec in 2001, I realized the marketing world as we knew it has changed and marketing communications will have to revolutionize in order to pursue its role in the structure of Israeli companies and their sales cycle. There was no more room for a large team of skilled professionals performing all the various tasks inside the organizations. Only a handful of companies need and can practically and financially support this structure.”
With this concept in mind, Yuval formed FORMA Group (www.formagroup.biz ), a team of hi-tech company marketing communications professional veterans that can easily and quickly fit a solution to the needs of any budding or blooming technology company. Located in Netanya, FORMA Group now serves on a regular or project basis, some of the leading Israeli startup companies, bringing them the excitement and enthusiasm of the glorious days of the Scitex spirit. Forma cover the entire range of Marcom activities and form a custom-tailored task force that meets your company’s exact requirements and immediate objectives, including: budgeting, production and delivery of marketing and corporate communications– printed, electronic, press and events.

VioWorldwide’s Chief Technology Officer is the ExScite Yaron Goldstein.
Yaron was one of the founders of Vio Worldwide. He joined Graphor Ltd. prepress in 1983, one of the earliest adaptors of the first Scitex systems in Israel. He was at Printer Industria Grafica SA Barcelona, one of Spain’s largest printing factories and part of the Bertelsmann group, and managed the digital prepress at Pioneer Plates Ltd., Israel’s largest packaging prepress specialists.
Yaron joined the Scitex Corporation as a senior application specialist and introduced packaging prepress and on demand digital printing systems to customers in Australia and Japan.
Vio offers a suite of software products, network provisioning and management expertise with 24×7 managed services for the intelligent distribution and collaborative management of advertising and digital media across the entire graphic arts supply chain, with guaranteed delivery.
Since its founding in 1998, Vio Worldwide  has been enabling its customers to more efficiently manage their digital supply chain and leverage their digital assets. Vio Worldwide’s more than 10,000 users, range from the world’s top publishers, prepress providers and printers, to ad agencies, retailers, consumer products manufacturers, packagers and Government departments. Vio Worldwide is part of London Merchant Securities plc, a UK-based company.