Aharon Nizani

Rafi Holtzman (raf@efi.com) in managing eBeam http://www.e-beam.com/ , an Electronic For Imaging [EFI] spin-off. eBeam is the electronic marker system that captures meeting notes and diagrams as you create them, so they can be viewed, saved, edited, shared, and printed using any Windows PC. It instantly transform any whiteboard into a powerful tool for capturing and sharing information. eBeam enhances teamwork, reduces travel costs, and makes meetings more effective — immediately. EFI is located in Foster City CA. Rafi was application engineer and product designer at Scitex in the 80’s.

Uzi Ish Horwitz

The ExScite Uzi Ish Horowitz, chairman of the board of Shira Computers, Ltd. www.shira.com appointed three new ExScite executives in its US office. Uzi was the Scitex COO for many years in the 70’s and 80’s.
Lazy Yanay joins as Corporate Vice President, Product Marketing. At Creo-Scitex he has held the position of Marketing Manager of the Printing Workflow Solutions Division.
Leigh Kimmelman joins. as VP, Product Marketing. At Creo-Scitex America where he was Product Marketing Manager of the Output Imaging Systems Division.
Shimon Orian returns to Shira, Inc., as VP, Customer Support. Shimon comes to Shira from Orset Corporation, a prepress integrator and longtime Shira dealer. Previously he worked for many years at Scitex in customer support. Shimon was part of Shira at its founding, and has had hands-on experience with nearly all Shira products ever since.
Shira is a developer of enhanced prepress and printing workflows. The company is a privately held with headquarter in Kfar Saba, Israel and offices in Woburn, MA.
For full story- read the ExScite News from 3/27/2001.

Jorge Steinfeld jorge@checkpoint.com has been appointed VP Information Systems at Check Point. Prior to this appointment, Jorge served as Check Point’s director of Information Systems. Before joining Check Point in 1998, Steinfeld worked for 10 years at Scitex as corporate applications manager where he was responsible for all applications for the corporate office in addition to all Scitex subsidiaries. In addition, he spent two of the ten years as Economic Department Manager, responsible for financial reports, budget preparation and control.
Eyal Desheh is the Chief Financial Officer at Check Point. Prior to joining the Check Point in May 2000, Desheh served as chief financial officer for Scitex. Before joining Scitex, he served in numerous finance management and business development roles including VP Business Development and Strategy at Bezeq, The Israeli Telecommunications Corp., Deputy CFO of Teva Pharmaceuticals , President of H.L. Financial Services and VP of Bank Hapoalim New York.
Check Point Software Technologies http://www.checkpoint.com (NASDAQ: CHKP) Ramat-Gan, Israel is in the business of securing the Internet. The company’s provides the infrastructure that enables secure and reliable Internet communications. In 12/2000 the company has been added to the prestigious Nasdaq-100 Index®

After 13 years at Scitex, Hanan Yosefi hanany@comview-vs.com has moved on. He has been appointed CEO of ComView Visual Systems. Hanan has held various positions at R&D, application and product management in Scitex, Israel. His last position at Creo/Scitex was VP Workflow division in Israel the largest division in Creo/Scitex, responsible for wide variety of Data management and digital front end solutions for both prepress and digital printing. ComView Visual Systems of Raanana, Israel www.comview -vs.com (founded in 1996) applies breakthrough optical technology (patent pending) to the development and production of high definition, large screen displays, both for rear projection and front projection applications, using solid-state projection technology.

Vic Stalam was named VP, Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer, of Kodak Polichrome Graphics KPG www.kpgraphics.com , in January 2001. Vic was most recently President and Chief Operating Officer of VIO North America a JV of Scitex in NJ, and prior to that, he was VP, Marketing and Sales, of the digital printing company Xyan.com.
For seventeen years, he was with Kodak in positions including: GM & VP– Digital Products and Systems, Kodak Professional Division; Director and VP – Integrated Imaging Solutions, Kodak Professional & Printing Imaging; Marketing and Sales Manager, Kodak Graphics Imaging Systems Division – Digital Color Proofing; and Marketing Manager, High Volume Printers, Kodak Copy Products Division.

Is Rami Gilboa rami_gil@netvision.net.il having fun, or what?
For the 8 years since he left Scitex Israel, Rami drives off road and runsto tell the guys. He is freelancing a weekly column in Maariv, and plays a main role in Israel’s only 4×4 magazine: “Hegee”. He has also published “The Jeep” book, a comprehensive 4×4 guide. Doing so he drives monsters like the one in the picture here (to the see a large monster click: http://www.rozin.com/exscite/gossip/RAMI_4x4big.jpg). Rami has been seen lately 4-wheeling in Greece, Turkey, the snow-covered French Alps, Namibia, Thailand and Patagonia. InMarch 2001 he plans to drive snowmobiles in Lapland and in June he plans on18 days 4×4 expedition to the Indian Himalayas & Ladack. Ah… by the way, Rami also manage a marcomm consulting business (print-production coordination) in Ramat Hasharon, Israel.

Itzik Savariego

Itzik Savariego itzik_savariego@adwise.net is Managing Director, Adwise Europe in Paris. Before joining Adwise, Itzik served as VP Sales and Operations at STE in Brussels. Prior to STE, he was Director of Corporate Marketing Planning at Scitex Israel. Itzik came to Scitex from Tadiran where he managed operations.
The Ramat-Gan based Adwise www.adwise.net , established in 1998, provides advertising infrastructure solutions for the management and delivery of scalable and targeted advertising and e-commerce offerings across the Internet.

Mike Grossman

Dr. Mike GrossmanMike@MagnaBizDev.comis managing Magna Business Development www.magnabizdev.com, of Herzlia, Israel. Magna is a consulting group dedicated to serving the business development needs of early stage technology companies and work with investors and industrial partners in Israel and abroad.Mike joined Scitex in Israel in 1979, as Corporate Marketing Manager and later went on to develop and manage the Asian, South African and Oceania division. After 5 years at Scitex, Mike managed several technology startups before he started Magna Business Development in 1992.

Dov Shacham shacham_dov@emc.com is the director of engineering operations at EMC near Boston MA. Dov was 10 years at Scitex, applications manager in Herzlia ’84-’90 and Response center manager at STA ‘90-’94. From ’94-’97 he was sales & marketing manager at Indigo, and until ’99 he was the managing director of the Israeli based Scopus Optical.
EMC² of Hopkinton MA www.emc.com is the world leader in mass storage solutions. The company designs, manufactures, markets and supports a wide range of hardware and software products and provide services for the storage, management, protection and sharing of electronic information.

Gideon Hazam gideonh@emicomgroup.com is a Founding Partner at the Emicom Group of Ramat-Gan, Israel.
Gideon was the director of Information Technology for the European and Israeli operations of Scitex. He was at Scitex for 13.5 years. After leaving Scitex, Gideon served as VP of international operations at Memco, responsible for the company’s IT services, human resources and general administration. Memco was recently sold to Computer Associates. Earlier, during his military service, Gideon was responsible for mainframe computer operations at the IDF Computing Center.
Emicom Group http://www.emicomgroup.com invests in promising technology start-ups, teaming with them, accelerating their time-to-market and propelling them to become leaders in their field.