Aharon Nizani

Mike Tomono

Mike Tomono mtomono@ms.tokyo.jcom.ne.jp has started an International Strategic Consulting business in Tokyo- Tomono Corp. Ltd. The company’s consulting services are directed towards high technology companies, foreign companies looking for doing business in Japan and Japanese companies interested in doing business abroad. The company’s web site is at URL: http://www.tokyo.jcom.ne.jp/~mtomono/
Tomono had a long career at IBM Japan, holding a number of executive management positions in sales, marketing, finance, manufacturing, and business development.
From 1993 to 1996, he was President & CEO of Nihon Scitex Ltd. (STN). Under his leadership, the annual revenues of Nihon Scitex doubled and became profitable company. Until recently, he was COO of the Tokyo based Novatec Corp. where he created and managed the graphics product sales and services division – which became a full-fledged organization producing a margin within the company.

Reuven Anati (Email: nyanati@wis.weizmann.ac.il ) is the head of the recently dedicated Everett Technology Workshop at the world-famous Weizman Institute in Rehovot, Israel.

He designed and supervised the building of a garden of wonders, located at the Clore Garden of Science at the Institute.

The exhibits at this unique museum are designed to stimulate a child’s wonder about the world while communicating scientific principles. Each exhibit demonstrates a natural phenomenon. The exhibits are hands-on for the young (and young at heart), most of whom are arriving on field trips from all over Israel. The Clore Garden of Science has become a popular tourist destination.

Prior to his career at the Institute, he was one of the first of employees at Scientific Technology in Rehovot (that later on has become Scitex in Herzlia). Reuven was one of the chief mechanical designer. He designed many of the first mechanical products of the company.

Anati received the Weizman Institute President’s Prize, the highest honor conferred on an employee of the Institute. He was also recipient of the nation’s Kaplan Prize, awarded by former President of Israel Zalman Shazar. The prestigious award is bestowed on inventors for patent applications. Anati’s patent, developed while at Scitex, is for a unique scanner that reproduces patterns on cotton jersey knit.

PHILIP LAVEE(Philip@zing.com) has been appointed to VP Business Development at Zing.com (www.zing.com) of san Francisco, CA, after his company Pix.com has been acquired by Zing.
Prior to Zing, Philip was president of Pix.com, the leading e-commerce retailer of gift merchandise customized with digital images. Before Pix.com, he served as director of sales and marketing at Scitex America, Inc., and senior manager of marketing and sales of Leaf Systems Inc. Prior to his career in the US, Philip was part of the application development group in Scitex in Israel. Zing, Inc. offers free, private, unlimited, permanent storage for personal pictures surrounded by a wide array of supporting services for album presentation, greeting cards, story telling, gifts and printing. From “click-free” digital-camera-to-web uploading, to high quality photo printing, Zing is building the infrastructure to advance and simplify digital photography