Gossip

Amnon Neubach (ExScite in the 80’s) has been appointed managing director of the Israeli Stock Exchange.

In the middle of the 80′s during the existential crisis at Scitex, he was brought in for a short period, as a corporate VP finance and helped in the cost cutting and the turn around of the company.

Over the last several years Amnon served as chairman and director for quite a few public and industrial companies in Israel. He was also the economic attaché in the Israeli embassy in Washington. Prior to working at Scitex he was economic consultant to the (then) prime minister Shimon Peres.

This is an article in Hebrew from the Israeli economic paper Globes (March 20, 2014):
http://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1000926146#fromelement=hp_firstarticle

לבורסה בתל אביב יש יו”ר חדש, לאחר כשמונה חודשים ללא יו”ר. דירקטוריון הבורסה אישר היום (ה’) את המלצת ועדת האיתור ומינה את אמנון נויבך לתפקיד יו”ר הדירקטוריון. בעוד שבבורסה ציפו לכ-200 מועמדים, בפועל רקכ-40 איש טרחו להגיש מועמדות.

בשנים האחרונות מכהן נויבך כדירקטור ויו”ר דירקטוריון של חברות ציבוריות וחברות תעשייתיות ביניהן ביטוח ישיר, לאומיקארד, דלתא, בזק, פלאפון ועוד. נויבך שימש חמש שנים כציר כלכלי בוושינגטון, והיה אחראי להשגת הערבויות לקליטת עולי ברית המועצות. כמו כן כיהן כיועצו הכלכלי של ראש הממשלה פרס בשנות השמונים, והיה שותף לביצוע תכנית הייצוב הכלכלי. לפני כן היה סגן הממונה על התקציבים באוצר, ושימש בתפקידים נוספים באגף התקציבים. אמנון נויבך חבר בהנהלת לשכת המסחר ישראל – אמריקה.

נויבך מסר כי הוא “משוכנע כי בכוחות משותפים נתמודד עם האתגרים העומדים בפני שוק ההון בעת זו, ונוביל את הבורסה לעידן חדש”.

עו”ד ברכה ליטבק, יו”ר הועדה, אמרה כי “מר נויבך מביא לתפקיד ניסיון עשיר ומגוון בניהול עסקי, בסקטור הציבורי והעסקי, כדירקטור וכיו”ר דירקטוריונים. הוא בעל ראיית מקרו רחבה וניסיון בהובלת שינויים משמעותיים בארגונים מורכבים. יש לו הכרות עמוקה עם העולם הפיננסי ועם ארגונים בארץ ובעולם. אני משוכנעת כי מר נויבך יזכה לתמיכה ולשיתוף פעולה מלא של הדירקטוריון, של השחקנים בשוק, ושל הרגולטורים, ויפעל יד ביד עם מנכ”ל הבורסה, הנהלתה וצוות עובדיה על מנת להוביל את הבורסה לתהליך של צמיחה והתחדשות”.

יו”ר רשות ניירות ערך, שמואל האוזר, מסר כי הוא “מודה לוועדת האיתור על עבודתה המצוינת והיסודית בתהליך בחירת יו”ר לבורסה. ניסיונו העשיר של אמנון במגזר הציבורי כמו גם במגזר העסקי וכיו”ר לשעבר של חברות גדולות, יסייע לו להוביל את הבורסה יחד עם מנכ”ל הבורסה, מר יוסי ביינהרט, וחברי הדירקטוריון, אל שיאים חדשים ולהביאה למקום הראוי לה בזירה הבינלאומית והמקומית כמחוללת צמיחה במשק וכאחד מעמודי התווך המרכזיים של התעשייה בישראל”.

עוד הוסיף האוזר כי “התקופה הקרובה מעמידה בפני הבורסה אתגרים גדולים, ואני משוכנע כי ההנהגה החדשה, בהובלת היו”ר והמנכ”ל הנבחרים, יצעידו את הבורסה ואת שוק ההון לעידן חדש”.

Scodix has recently added more ExScite’s to its top management in Israel and in the USA.

Lance Shumaker has been appointed to Head Up Scodix North American Operations.He will report to another ExScite member Dror Danai, Executive Vice President, Global Sales and Business Development. Lance has held executive management positions with Scitex and Indigo, and more recently Advanced Vision Technology (AVT).

Amit Svartz joins Scodix as VP marketing management. In his previous position, Amit was the VP Marketing of Extricom, a privately held firm specializing in enterprise wireless LAN. Prior to Extricom he was VP Marketing at Objet Geometrics (2005-2010), and held several positions over a 10-year period beginning in 1995 with industry trailblazers Scitex and Creo.

Dennis Kercher Joined Scodix as sales manager,Western United States and Western Canada. Previously he was Account Manager at Domino Amjet, Western Region. Prior to Domino Amjet, he held several sales positions at both Creo and Kodak over a 16 year period.

Scodix Ltd. provides digital print enhancements for the graphic arts industry. Through the Scodix S Series, Scodix Ultra™ and Scodix Rainbow™ Station, they offer the breakthrough Scodix SENSE™ experience in America, Europe, Middle-East, Asia and Africa. The company’s aim is to lead print enhancement into the digital age and to be known for its passion and commitment to providing what our customers need the most – true brand differentiation for today’s highly competitive printing environment.

The ExScite Miki Nagler is VP Advanced Technologies, at Landa Labs

Miki brings to Landa over 30 years of executive experience in the printing industry at leading companies including fulfilling the positions of Senior VP at Scitex (now Kodak) and President & CEO of Aprion Digital (now HP). In recent years he served as CEO of two medical device companies. Miki has a proven track record of taking technologies through the full cycle, from conception to sales. He holds an MSc degree in physics from the Weizmann Institute, a PhD in optics and electro-optics from the university of Arizona and is also a graduate of the Senior Executives’ business course at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. Miki is the author or co-author of over 30 patents and patent applications.

Landa Labs, under the leadership of Beny Landa (Indigo’s founder) is a new digital printing category. Nanography employs water-based Landa NanoInk™ Colorants and a unique image transfer system that together achieve unprecedented results. Landa sheetfed and web Nanographic Printing™ presses offer the versatility of digital printing combined with the qualities and speed of offset. They print on any off-the-shelf coated and uncoated stocks and packaging films. Nanography is expected to significantly impact the industry and ignite a second digital revolution in print. See more at http://www.landanano.com/

The ExScite Reuven Sherwin has over 15 years of experience in senior Product Management and R&D management positions within the tech sector  joined Wix in January 2013. He has been involved with Wix from the get-go, having served as a member of its Advisory Board as well as being the Organizational and Operational Adviser to the Wix founders since 2008. Great timing Reuven- Wix has just completed its IPO on NASDAQ [ticker WIX].
Prior joining to Wix, Reuven was the Co-Founder and VP of Products and R&D of XMPie, a company he co-founded in July 2000 which was sold to Xerox at the end of 2006. XMPie as we all recall, was originated as a group within Scitex and was span off in 2000.
The Israeli company WIX (www.wix.com) provides a powerful technology that makes it simple for everyone to go online with a beautiful, professional and functional web presence. Their web building platform is the only drag n’ drop website building platform with HTML5 capabilities, 100s of designer made templates, top grade hosting, and innovative Apps. No creative limits, no coding – just complete freedom to express yourself and manage your entire business online. The company claim to have 42 million users in 190 countries!

Haim Shani

The ExScite Haim Shani recently retired from his position as Director General of Israel’s Ministry of Finance, the highest non-political economic post in the government. He led key business related legislation and committees for two and a half years. Mr Shani has been in the High Tech industry for 28 years. He has lived and managed businesses in Israel, the US, Asia and Europe at IBM, Scitex, Orbotech and Applied Materials.
Haim was the CEO of NICE (NASDAQ: NICE) for eight years. He grew the company’s revenue to over $600M (a factor of 6X) through operational changes and strategic diversification. The company’s market cap grew from $100M to $2.5B during his tenure. He also managed and grew global businesses in Enterprise Software, Telecom, Semiconductor, HLS and the Printing industries.

Mr. Shani is presently the Chairman of the UK-Israel High Tech Hub sponsored by the UK government and the private sector with the objective to increase cooperation between the UK and Israel technical communities and economies.

Mr. Shani has a BSc in Industrial and Management Engineering from Tchnion, as well as an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. In 2008, Mr. Shani was selected as D&B top 10 CEOs in the country. In 2006 he was selected as Top High Tech CEO in the large corporations category my the MIL