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Nur- Full of ExScite’s


(In the picture above from left to right: Erez, Alon, Amir, Hillel, Efi.)
Nur Macroprint www.nur.com of Magshimim Israel, is a real ExScite stronghold. The company is a global leader in the giant format inkjet printer marker. Nur is publicly traded on NASDAQ with a symbol: NURM.
We have heard some rumors , that an additional senior manager from Scitex is just about to join Nur in Israel. We’ll report it as soon as it becomes official.
Erez Shachar, is CEO since 7/97. Erez is also a Director of Eltek of Israel. Prior to Nur, from 1989 to 1997, he served in various R&D, marketing, sales, and senior management positions with Scitex. His last position with Scitex was VP Sales and Marketing at STE and earlier he was a software developer within the R&D group of Scitex, Israel.
Hilel Kremer is CFO since 12/98. Prior to joining Nur, from 1993 to 1998 he served in various management positions with Scitex. His last position with Scitex was VP of Finance at Scitex Asia Pacific in Hong Kong, and prior thereto he held several positions in the finance organization of STE. Prior to STE he held various positions in the budgeting department of the Israeli Finance ministry.
Efraim M. Weinreb, is VP R&D 7/98. Prior to Nur he served as VP R&D of AutoMedia, an Israeli start-up company that developed digital video solutions. From 1983 to 1996, he served in various research and development management positions with Scitex in Israel. His last position with Scitex was R&D manager of Brisque Front-End.
Alon Avnon is the Managing Director of NUR Europe since 10/97. Previously Alon served as VP Marketing at Scidel, a company partially owned by Scitex where he established the European office to support sales and marketing activities. Prior to Scidel Alon served as Director of Marketing at STE.
Amir Noy is Managing Director, NUR Asia Pacific since its inception in 2/99. Amir lives in Shanghai, China (in case any one is looking for connections over there…) Prior to founding NUR Asia Pacific, Amir served as VP of Marketing at NUR in Israel. From 1994 to 1996, he served as VP of R&D at NUR. Prior to Nur, Amir was with Scitex R&D in Israel.

Shlomo Shamir to head Nice America

Effective April 1, 2001, Shlomo Shamir will assume the position of president of the American subsidiary (located in Secaucus, NJ) of the Israeli company NICE. Shlomo will be a member of the Nice Management Team and will report to Haim Shani Corporate President & CEO (you guessed it… an ExScite himself. To see- scroll down at the Gossip article at: http://www.rozin.com/exscite/newsdb/gossiplist.asp?offset=30 ). Shlomo was a VP at Scitex in Herzlia president of STA in Bedford MA.
NICE Systems (www.nice.com) is a provider of multimedia digital recording solutions, applications and related professional services for business interaction management. (See a recent interview with Haim “Haim Shani steps in to rescue the company”) at: http://www.globes.co.il/serveEN/globes/docView.asp?did=469814&fid=942 ). Recent rumors are that the Israeli company Comverse is planning a takeover of Nice.

David Ohayon has been appointed VP R&D at Itamar Medical.

David Ohayon has been appointed VP R&D at Itamar Medical. David odavid@itamar-medical.com was 15 years with Scitex in Israel. Itamar Medical Ltd. www. itamar-medical.com of Caesarea Israel, is pioneering the introduction to medicine of a non-invasive window to the autonomic nervous system neurovascular signal. The Company’s researchers are developing proprietary technologies and advanced Digital Signal Processing algorithms to apply peripheral arterial tonometry in a number of important clinical applications including various aspects of cardiology and sleep medicine.

Njet in Finland- based on ExScite/Unda

A new Internet startup company, Njet Communications Ltd, of Helsinki, Finland http://anvil.njet.com has been founded by three previous Scitex employees and a few other Internet professionals. The ExScite members and founders of the company are the Fins: Jaripekka Salminen, Heikki Luhtala (heikki@njet.com ) and Raimo Nurmi. Some of the founders were previously at Unda Oy – a Scitex Company. The company products include browser-based Internet content management publishing and Java based application scripting language for web applications and mobile services for the Internet.

Stan Najmr at Presstek

Stan Najmr has been appointed Director at Presstek of Hudson, NH www.presstek.com . He’ll be responsible for direct imaging on presses. Mike Chadwick, also ex-STA, who spearheaded Brisque Open projects in CSA will join Presstek’s DI team soon as the DI Product Marketing Manager. Stan (12 years with Scitex) snajmr@presstek.com was Marketing director for CSA (a.k.a STA), launched Lotem and Brisque production lines in Americas. Established Brisque Advisory Council together with Howard White

Brian Eastman, Now with Spectra

Brian G. Eastman BEastman@spectra-inc.com joined Spectra in 4/1999 as VP Engineering. Prior to coming to Spectra, Brian was the President and CEO of Gerber Systems in Connecticut. Formerly he was Senior VP Engineering at Leaf Systems for 2 years when Scitex acquired it. He also held key development and management roles at Compugraphic Corporation (now Agfa Electronic Pre-Press Systems). The Hanover, NH based Spectra http://www.spectra-inc.com/company.html is a developer and manufacturer of piezoelectric ink-jet print heads and related consumables and accessories, making proprietary drop-on-demand ink jet print heads capable of producing high performance digital images in a wide variety of printing and fluid jetting applications.

Roni OR- GM at Jacada

Roni Or has been named general manager of Israeli operations at Jacada. Jacada (NASDAQ: JCDA) of Herzlia, Israel, http://www.jacada.com is a provider of e-business infrastructure software with offices in Israel and in Atlanta GA. Roni was previously VP Product development at BackWeb, and before than R&D director at Scitex Corporation. At Scitex he managed the development of Whisper workstation product family. (see Jacada’s annoucement at: http://www.jacada.com/News/PR98.htm ).

For all those who wonder where Efi Arazi (earazi@csi.com ) is…he has moved from the West-Coast to the West-Side in NY.
After leaving Scitex in the middle of the eighties, Efi started EFI (Electronics For Imaging, NASDAQ: EFII) and later was the CEO on the San Francisco based Imedia. Currently, Efi plays the venture capital game focusing on the startup community in Israel.

Allison Druin- @ the University of Maryland

Allison Druin (allisond@umiacs.umd.edu ) recently received a Career Award from the the National Science Foundation for her research in developing “The Classroom of the Future“. Her team of children and adults at the Human-Computer Interaction Lab and College of Education, the University of Maryland has been developing new technologies for young children over the past 3 years ( http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~allisond/block/blocks.html ). However, what really keeps her busy is her 2 year old daughter that she and her husband adopted last year from Kazakhstan ( www.bederson.org/dana ). Allison was 3.5 years with STA.

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