Aharon Nizani

Nostalgia

Nathan R. Yakobovitch who’s currently the Director, Global Strategic Purchasing at NICE Systems Ltd. Israel has sent us this picture and list of names:
“Early June 2005 we eventually met– The whole ancient STCL Purchasing bunch had a gathering at Avi Raby’s place in Hertzliya. The faces were the same, a wrinkle here and there, the hair is somewhat greyer (or lesser, in some cases) but the same loving happy eyes. In the attached collage, you can see us all. From top left:
Iris Dassa, Avi Raby, Arita Mattsoff, Nili Berger, Michael Katz, Rafi Rauscher, Suzanne Leaf, Michelle Herman, Gailie Steger, Jorge Gerber, Zalman Tzibel, Nira Neuberger, Nava Bachar, Nathan Yakobovitch, Florie Nitzan, Yossi Keinan, Nicola Jacks, Yisrael Leshman, Ilanit Interstein, Moshe Obertziger, Yaffa Baer, Hanoch Halamish, Mili Kalech, Lea Bar Dayan.
We even got a phone call from Nicole Furman in S. Africa, regreting for not joining”

Mannie_Olswang

Mannie Olswang founded Veidan in 1999.
Prior to Veidan Mannie was Executive Vice President & CFO of ECI Telecom Ltd. and before that CFO at Laser Industries and Scitex America in its early days.
Ve’idan Advanced Teleconferencing specializes in audio conferencing services and operates under a special license granted by the Israeli Ministry of Communications. Located in Tel Aviv Israel, Ve’idan is Israel’s only provider of comprehensive audio conferencing services for both international and domestic in-country use. In addition to audio, the company provides video and web conferencing services.

Iris printer still running @ Maui Giclee

In the last entry here at ExScite’s Nostalgia section (Aug 2, ’05) we posted eye-popping graphics which had been produced to promote the launch of the Iris Realist printer, 10 years ago.

On a recent visit to Maui, Hawaii we have found three older 3047 large format Iris printers. The printers are still in operation at Maui Giclee producing high quality fine art prints for artists world wide. Some of these prints are sold at the Maui Giclee’s own gallery in Kihei, Maui and the rest are sold in many galleries in Hawaii, US as well as in other countries.
Click here to see the definition of what is-Giclee

Lauri_Hanover

Lauri A. Hanover joined Lumenis in August 2004 as Chief Financial Officer.
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 and strong working capital management. Prior to NICE, she served as Executive Vice President and CFO of Sapiens International.
Lauri spent 13 years at Scitex Corporation Ltd. and 3 years at Philip Morris Inc.
Located in Israel, Lumenis is a global developer, manufacturer and seller of laser and light-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.

Nostalgia

One of the most anticipated products from Iris Graphics was the Realist Ink Jet Printers.
The newly redesigned line of products was unveiled in 1995. The launch was carefully designed by the Iris product marketing team and included printing eye-catching graphics printed on T Shirts with the slogan- {WHAT YOU SEE IS EVERYTHING}.
If you happen to have pictures of real people wearing those T shirts- please send them to content@exscite.net .

Nostalgia

As the old STA newspaper boys can tell- the P.Ink episode was an interesting experiment in (failed) investment.

[1994] Can a German Macintosh developer find happiness with an Israeli imaging company after its disastrous liaison with an American magazine publisher who installed a Frenchman to manage the relationship?
No, it’s not a soap opera, it’s pre-press musical chairs. Following a couple of years of Time Magazine Group’s holding the North American rights to P.INK — the Macintosh-based front-end system developed in Germany — and about a year of negotiations, Scitex bought into P.INK (25% equitty) last winter. The first iteration of the Scitex-influenced P.INK will be shown at NEXPO. We have always believed that P.INK had a lot of potential and weren’t satisfied with the direction in which the Americans pointed the product. But under the new relationship, the literature certainly looks good. P.Ink Press, the publishing system based on Quark XPress that uses an SQL database, seems to have overcome many of its previous deficits and appears to be on its way to becoming a solid product; P.Ink Media, an archiving and recycling system, is intended to hold full-page images as well as text and photographs. All this, and Scitex’s high-end color systems, page transmission systems and the 18-wheel truck (click on the picture to see details) where nine people will build live news pages every day.
Source: THE COLE PAPERS, July 1994

Uri_Lotan

Uri Lotan is VP Business Development of Lumus.
Previously he served as the Marketing Manager for Scitex Japan , the Japanese subsidiary of Scitex, the pioneer and world leader, at that time, in electronic prepress. Later, he set up and managed Orbot SA, the European subsidiary of Orbot Systems, a manufacturer of equipment for inspecting and imaging printed circuit boards and flat panel displays. When Orbot merged with Optrotech to form a new company called Orbotech, Uri led the merger at the European subsidiary and served as the President of the Orbotech SA. Uri also served as the General Manager of IPEX Europe and as President of Valor Europe, a subsidiary of Valor Computerized Systems.
Founded in 2000, the Israeli Lumus Optical has developed a revolutionary optical imaging technology, enabling a wide range of ultra-compact personal displays for mobile applications. Lumus’ revolutionary patent-pending technology – Light-guide Optical Element (LOE) – enables personal screen less display by projecting images and data from computers, DVD players, or VCRs into the viewer’s eye, displaying them in the visual field of the viewer.

Nostalgia

Have you been enjoying finding new nostalgia pictures and stories here every once in awhile?

If yes- please look at your historical collection and send what you find to me.

Ronen_Bartal

Ronen Bartal VP R&D and Business Development is leading Smart Link’s VoIP business with overall responsibilities of business development, marketing and R&D.
He joined Smart Link in 2002 as Director of Marketing. From 1997-2001, Ronen was with Orckit Communications Ltd, holding both R&D, Business Development and product marketing positions. Prior to joining Orckit, he was associated with the Israeli Ministry of Defense (Intelligence Corp), working in the field of Telecommunications. Ronen was 4 years at Scitex R&D.
Smart Link the world’s third largest supplier of modems, designs and markets dial-up and broadband software modem solutions for client-side communication connections found in desktop PCs and notebooks, ADSL modems, TV set-top boxes, multi-function printers and other consumer products that require Internet-based connectivity.Smart Link is a fabless company with a global organization that is headquartered in Natanya, Israel and has offices in Boston, Taipei and Shenzhen.

Carmel_Rosenthal_2005

The Tokyo based ExScite Carmel Rosenthal has been recently interviewed at the Israeli radio service. Carmel described his Scitex history, his involvement in the Israel-Japan hi tech business and his life in Japan.
To listen to the very interesting interview, click here.
Carmel is the president of his own consulting company Creative Tec, which focuses on the links between Israeli and Japanese companies.

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