Aharon Nizani

Mike_Sinigaglia

Mike Sinigaglia is back in Israel. Earlier in 2009 mike was appointed Strategic Accounts Program Manager, North America at HP Indigo. He drives HP’s vision is to drive the analog to digital transformation in high value color print production markets and expand market leadership by creating value for the customers. In 2008 he was VP sales of the Los Angeles based UQS Global a product development, engineering and sourcing company that specializes in outdoor and in-home consumer products. From 2005-2007 Mike was Vice President Sales, at Iridio, a RR Donnelley company, which provides digital media services. Before Iridio, Mike has VP Sales & Business Development at the printing company Wright Graphics .
But Mike’s real claim to fame is his 16 years at Scitex (since 1984). During this long period, Mike was at Scitex R&D, customer support, application, marketing, national account management and sales management. Mike was West Coast regional sales manager at Scitex America (which for a short time operated under the name Creo).

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George Carlisle who was president of Scitex America in the 80’s, is a part owner of Olde Port Properties of New Hampshire. George and his wife, Susan, are both natives and lifelong residents of Portsmouth, NH. George joined Olde Port Properties after retiring from a very successful 30-year career as an executive in high tech printing and publishing. Known as a “turn-around specialist,” George worked the last 16 years as President/CEO of three profitable international companies ranging from $50M to $300M, including Compugraphic, Scitex America and Indigo. George holds a BA degree in Economics from Dartmouth College and is a featured speaker on “Leadership” for a number of organizations and educational institutions. He recently joined the Board of Trustees of the Seacoast Repertory Theater and is a regular contributor to the Portsmouth Music Hall. George specializes in both commercial and residential properties. He’s completely “sold” on the seacoast area, and enjoys helping Buyers and Sellers achieve their goals.
Olde Port Properties, LLC.  in located in Portsmouth, NH.

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Uzi Ish Hurwitz, who for many year was Scitex’s COO has been appointed chairman of the board of the Israeli company APM Automation Solutions.
Uzi has more than 30 years experience in management of high technology companies. Presently he is engaged in distressed M&A of high-tech companies and sale of technology assets. Among the senior positions he held are:
*CEO and Chairman of the Board, Shira Computers Ltd., Israel
Shira specialized in development of software products for the pre-print market.
*Executive VP and Member of the Board
Neuromedical Systems, Inc.,  New York – a NASDAQ, medical device technology company and CEO of its Israeli R&D and manufacturing subsidiary.
*Co-founder and President, Indigo Graphic Systems Ltd. (IGS), Israel
IGS developed, manufactured and sold the world’s first wide-format high-speed plotters and engineering reprographics systems for engineering applications.
* VP Operations, Scitex Corporation Ltd.,  Israel
At Scitex he built, led and managed the R&D, manufacturing, engineering, customer support, logistics, facilities, management information systems and quality assurance groups. IPO in 1980.

Privately held APM Automation Solutions Ltd. is headquartered in Israel, and its products are sold and supported by a network of agents / distributors across Europe, U.S.A, and South Africa.
The company specializes in developing technologically innovative, effective and economical non-contact level measurement instruments for a range of industrial applications

Ron Roszkiewicz’s career in graphic arts, publishing and technology spans 30 years. The first 13 years were spent creating content with positions at the following companies: Woodcraft Supply as Catalog Director in charge of production; Sterling Publishing as book packager, cover photographer, and author; Charles Scribner’s Sons as special interest book program editor; and as consulting editor for Macmillan Publishing and Time-Life Books.

The next 17 years were spent developing technology for graphic arts, prepress and publishing industries. Ron’s introduction to technology began with his inclusion on the seminal Visionary team at Scitex that developed the first desktop to high-end prepress workflow. Subsequent positions included: PostScript lab manager at Xyvision; senior manager for new product development at Dainippon Screen; vice president of engineering at DK&A; and president of metadata tool development company Pound Hill Software. In nearly all of the positions listed above Ron was part of a skunkworks engineering initiative focussed on creating the next generation of products for the parent company.

New book just published: “To Turn The Perfect Wooden Bowl, The Lifelong Quest of Bob Stocksdale” by Ron Roszkiewicz. Fox Chapel Publishing “Valuable for those who make or love crafts.” Library Journal (July 9, 2009)

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We announced just over a year ago the appointment of the Exscite, Steve Zunde as President of PriscoDigital. After an ironical turn of events where Zunde was President of Scitex Vision Americas through the acquisition by HP, PriscoDigital has now signed an exclusive distribution agreement with HP Scitex.
Zunde’s organization will now be the commercial printing distribution arm for HP Scitex, whereby they will sell the full line of industrial inkjet systems to the commercial and industrial printing markets across the USA. The agreement is strategic for both companies as it ties PriscoDigital to the industry technology leader, enabling Prisco’s extensive sales resources and in-depth knowledge of the commercial printing sector to bring leading-edge products to the marketplace for HP Scitex.  Prisco has close to 100 sales professionals full time in the field working out of nine locations across North America.

It was also just over a year ago that Steve underwent kidney-donation surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD where he has now initiated the longest living donor kidney chain in the world, having enabled 8 people to receive a kidney transplant to date, as a result of his altruistic donation after his kidney was flown via helicopter from Johns Hopkins Hospital to Wake Forest Medical Center in North Carolina.The full strory was recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine and was aired by CBS News several weeks ago.

Steve joined Prisco from Hewlett-Packard Company where he served as President of Scitex Vision Americas until the acquisition by HP, and then filled several business planning and strategic roles within HP’s Imaging & Printing Division. Prior to his role as President of Scitex Vision Americas, Steve held senior management positions within Scitex Corporation Ltd. where he served as the President of Karat Digital Press, a startup and joint-venture between Scitex and KBA, which was then fully acquired by KBA with Steve then serving as the President of KBA’s digital division in North America. Prior to this, he was the President of International Paper Company’s’ global printing chemicals business which was then acquired by Fuji Photo Film of Tokyo.

Prisco is the world’s leading manufacturer and distributor of offset pressroom chemistry and process control equipment. Headquartered in Newark, NJ, Prisco has provided quality products and superior support services to customers for over a century. PriscoDigital focuses on providing a complete line of the most innovative UV Inkjet printers available on the market today backed by superior technical and customer support with the same after sales service that Prisco has become known for.

Joel Stern is currently the only ExScite member in Nanjing China.

Joel represents the Israeli solid-modeling company Solido 3D. The company makes a desk-top “printer”, which is used in the development of model building, utilizing rigid plastic materials and require no post-build curing.

Joel has Emailed us:

I work in a joint venture called Zijin-Lead in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China.
I just moved recently to this little city of over 7 million people. My wife will join me soon and this will be our third relocation after Milan and Charlotte, NC. Nanjing in out of probably most tourism routes in China, and actually, there isn’t something special to see here, despite of its ancient and interesting history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing
There is no Jewish community here and my wife I and will double the Israeli congregation: there are 2 Israeli students here, who speak, read and write Chinese. The overall foreigners’ population is not so big and most of them are Koreans. It is not easy, the least to say, to live here without knowing the language so we shall have to put some efforts on this issue. This is a new, different, interesting and exciting relocation that, based on my little experience from the two months living here, cannot be compared to any other place we have lived in the past.
Earlier in May I was invited to a dinner with a local family who have identical quadruplets girls, born in regular delivery on the same time. They told me that their birth was announced all over China and they still suffer from journalists and paparazzo. The girls are now 10 years old, excellent students, sing, dance, and speak little English (see picture from the dinner).

Joel Stern

Svetlana (Orly) Sherman is Offshore Testing Project Manager at Kodak Israel for a total of 11 years, beginning at the Scitex days. She is currently managing a team of 18 QA engineers, recruiting and building the offshore testing team located in Lviv, Ukraine and testing team located at Matrix Global, Modiin Ilit, Israel.
From 2000 – 2002 she was Senior Integration Engineer, working on product integration of citex/CreoScitex/Creo/CreoPOD color servers driving the various digital printers. From 1998 – 2000 Orly began her Career at Scitex as Integration Engineer responsible for product integration of SDP (Scitex Digital Printing) product line.

Sima Nadler is the head of Telcommunication research group at IBM’s Research Lab in Haifa, Israel.

Prior to IBM she has held managerial and development positions in the areas of medical devices and pre-press graphic arts.Between 1999 and 2004 Sima was a development manager for self care project at Amdocs.
She was Manager of Clinical Applications Division between 1997-1999 at Medsim, a medical devices company.
For almost 8 years, from 1989 to 1997 Sima was with Scitex R&D.
She worked in projects such as: Digital front-end for digital color printers, Graphic arts file/print server, Mac page layout product, Kodak Approval Digital Proofer server.

Sima is managing an interesting blog: Kids & Modern Communication. Click here to see her blog here: 
Sima wrote “This blog combines my expertise from both parts of my life to share with you thoughts and knowledge about communication technologies and how they will affect our kids now and in the future”.

The ExScite Gadi Amit is moving fast forward.

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A little industrial design can make a product go a long way. With experience working for Apple through the US-based frogdesign firm, and now major clients from the computer industry, such as Dell, HP, and Samsung, the Israeli industrial designer Gadi Amit, 46, is running a tight and successful ship at the American design firm he founded: NewDealDesign, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Fast Company and BusinessWeek consider Amit’s industrial design firm to be a top 10 in America, and in consumer electronics, he’s an easy top five. Recently partnered with Shai Agassi, the founder of the electric car company Better Place, Amit took on the role of designing Better Place’s electric car charging ports. San Francisco and Hawaii have already committed to test-driving the project, and in Israel says Amit, who is an old friend of Agassi, the NewDealDesign recharge stations are already on the streets. The first ones were inaugurated last December. “We’re moving forward – moving very fast and the project is very tangible. It’s real and it’s happening,” says Gadi. “My contribution is to make sure the product is cost-effective, user-friendly and has a significant signature, one that’s playing well with the urban setting.”
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Located in the Bay Area, NewDealDesign is a unique creative agency providing Strategic Industrial Design, Physical Interaction Design and Branding services to leading companies. Founded in 2000, NewDeal has a long client list from start-ups to Fortune 500 names including Dell, Fujitsu, Verizon, Logitech, Palm, Nokia, Rio and more.

Yigal_Abram

The ExScite Yigal Abram is Corporate VP Sales – Service at the Israeli company ECI Telecom.

From 2004 to 2006 he was VP Sales & Marketing and Managing Director – Europe at ImageID. Prior to that- 1998-2002 Yigal was Sales Director – Europe at ECI – Inovia Telecoms and at Onyx Technologies from 96 to 98.
Yigal was R&D Project Manager at SCITEX in Herzlia between 1992 – 1996 (4 years).
ECI Telecom is a supplier of networking infrastructure for carrier and service provider networks worldwide. ECI’s equipment serves as the platform for key applications including business services, voice, video and wireless backhaul.