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Doron Gill

The ExScite Doron Gill is VP R&D at SupportSpace.
Doron Gill has 20 years of experience managing software development. Before joining SupportSpace , Doron was the General Manager of Mercado Software, where he managed the technology center and was an integral part of the company’s growth and before that he was senior VP of R&D for Jacada (NASDAQ: JCDA). Doron served as executive VP of R&D and General Manager of the Tel-Aviv office of Gizmoz, formerly Zapa Digital Arts. He previously held a variety of development management positions with Scitex Corporation.
SupportSpace of Netanya, Israel is an online consumer tech-support company providing users with high quality, easy to use, community based service. Founded in 2006, SupportSpace has developed a unique technology platform designed to address the problems associated with the rapid adoption of new technologies to the home. All experts share one platform for support management and delivery, collaborating with a common knowledge base, shared diagnostic, self-healing and communication tools. SupportSpace marks the advent of a new era in tech support.

Nachum Homi Shamir 

Homi Shamir

, is the CEO of Given Imaging.  Prior to Given, he has served as Corporate VP of Kodak and as the President of Eastman Kodak?s Transaction and Industrial Solutions Group, which includes several business units, including Kodak Versamark, Inc. (whose operations were previously those of SDP Scitex Digital Printing Inc.). Homi was President of SDP. Prior thereto, he was Managing Director and General Manager of Scitex Digital Printing (Asia Pacific) Pte Ltd.
Given Imaging is developing, producing and marketing innovative, patient-friendly products for detecting gastrointestinal disorders. The company is developing a complete line of PillCam video capsules for detecting disorders of the gastrointestinal tract and provides visual examination of the esophagus, has been cleared for marketing by the FDA.

Rami Hascal

The ExScite Rami Hascal has joined H.T PROF. Israel recruting. Rami who had been with Scitex in Israel and in Boston for over 14 years, lives in Newton MA.
We hope that Rami will regulary post job opportunities for our ExScite members at the ExScite Resume Section.
He wrote us:
I am glad to inform you that I joined H.T PROF. Israel (www.htprof.com), an Atlanta based executive search firm dedicated to help Israeli companies to recruit key personnel, executive and technical, in the USA.
As you might guess, my twenty-odd years in the USA, understanding the subtle differences of how business is conducted in Israel and in America, will be a major contribution to Israeli companies as they recruit key management and technical personnel for their US based operation.
HT Prof. Israel has extensive track record of placing key personnel for US-Israeli based companies.  I have attached a one page document describing the services provided by the company.
I will be working from my home office so please feel free to use my contact information as it appears below:
Rami Hascal, Principal                Email: rami@htprof.com
US office- H.T PROF. Israel
Tel:  (Office) 617-916-0028   (Mobile) 617-233-4059

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Ronen Sobel joined HumanEyes as VP Graphic Arts Sales after 11 years at Scitex and Creo where he served, at different periods, in executive positions in the United States, and Asia Pacific. Ronen more recently served as Vice President of sales at View Links Ltd, a company specializing in the fraud detection for the financial institutes.
The Jerusalem based HumanEyes Technologies provide solutions for combining 3D stereo and panorama, previously considered impossible.
HumanEyes Board of Directors includes Chairman Benny Landa (founder and former CEO of Indigo – now HP), Yoav Chelouche (former CEO of Scitex).

Founded in 1999, Printar of Rehovot Israel, supplies digital printing equipment and consumable chemicals for the PCB industry. Printar market sector focus is on digital printing technologies for PCB manufacturing.
Like many Israeli technology start ups, Printar is also proud to present a strong management team composed of a number of ExScite?s.

Amir Noy – CEO since September 2006. Prior to that, he served as CEO of Sunlight Medical, Ltd., a medical equipment company. From 1994 to 2001 he worked for NUR Macroprinters as VP R&D, VP Marketing and since 1999 as the President of the Asia subsidiary. Before Nur, Amir was at Scitex Israel.
Ron Zohar – President and founder of Printar, defined and initiated the company?s products from scratch to worldwide sales in all PCB market geographic segments. From 1977 ? 1999 Zohar worked for Scitex-Idanit and from 1985 ? 1997 he held various R&D and business development positions at Optrotech and later at Orbotech.
Ori Gerson ? VP Operations joined Printar in 2004 and is in charge of production, logistic, applications & customer support departments. He held various senior positions in Laser industry and Scitex Vision, including VP of operations for the past 19 years.
Albert Yafe– VP R&D Systems joined Printar in 2005 and is in charge of system research and development. Prior to that he held various senior management positions at Scitex and Orbotech for over 25 years. Among others, he was corporate VP R&D at Orbotech and CTO at Orbotech Ventures.
Nachum Korman – President North America & Europe  joined Printar in December 2006. Before joining Printar, he was the President of American operations for Nur Marcoprinters.  Previous to that, he held a number of senior positions at Nur, including the President of NUR Europe S.A. Mr. Korman began his career at Elbit and Optrotec in Belgium, and also worked for Scitex Europe S.A. as sales and logistics manager.
In addition, the late Ami Caspi (see ExScite/News, Mar 24, 2007) was a Director at the company until he passed away in March 2007.
In the picture from left to right: Amir, Ron, Ori, Albert and Nachum

Lior ofer

Lior Ofer is the Director of Global Support at the software company Ex Libris. He is responsible for the service organization worldwide.
Until 2002 Lior was the Director of Business Development ? Professional services at ECI Telecom and before that he was director of Customer Services at ECI
Between 1988 and 1996 Lior held various positions at Scitex, including:
* Managing the support organization in the Pacific Rim, which served over 500 customers and 20 agents,
* Regional Support Manager at STA, responsible for the service operation in southeast USA,
* Installation Manager
The Ex Libris Group is a worldwide supplier of software solutions and related services for libraries and information centers. The Company’s product line has been customized to serve users’ functional and linguistic needs in more than 20 languages. Staff resources currently consist of more than 280 employees worldwide, with a core development team that includes both highly qualified librarians and expert software engineers. Ex Libris is represented in 24 countries across six continents. Local distributors provide sales, project management, and support operations.

The ExScite Thomas Metzeler has founded Arados Consulting in December 2006, operating from Brussels.
Thomas is a professional IT consultant specialized in the area of data management, identity management and information lifecycle management and architects solutions to meet the complex strategic and technical challenges of today’s data and storage management.
Thomas joined STE as application engineer in 1996, after working for several years at Druma, a Scitex reseller in Austria. He then moved to Israel in 2000 where was the technical product manager for the server and data-management products. After Creo had merged with Scitex, he moved back to Europe and started as a storage management consultant for several large enterprises, primarily in Central and  Northern-Europe. Since December 2006 he is the general manager of Arados Consulting and provides his expertise and experience in consultancy engagement.
Arados Consulting provides consultancy in the following areas: Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) , Storage Management, Storage Infrastructure Strategy and Architecture, Storage Consolidation, Business Continuance, Audits.
Arados partners with the best providers of data storage infrastructure and of data security content, such as Hitachi Data Systems and Sun Microsystems.

Dror Haroush  is the Chief of Operations at Marketbee technology; California based company that provides Product Lifecycle Management and Portfolio Management solutions that supports the enterprise product development processes. In his role Dror is responsible for the company business and technology development, clients? services and field operations activities. He is also involved in all sales and consulting activities within the company.
Before joining Marketbee Dror was a Vice President of professional services at Noosh Inc. A California based cross-enterprise e-business software solutions Company that focused on enterprise supply chain. Before that Dror held several positions in R&D management and Services management during his six years with Scitex in Israel and Europe, between 1993 and 1999.. In his last position, as part of the management team of Scitex digital printing division, he managed the division?s International Services groups in Europe, North America and Japan.
Marketbee of San Mateo CA, is a part of Eshbel Technologies, an enterprise software solution provider and represents its solutions in the U.S. Marketbee applies Eshbel’s domain expertise and technology to provide integrated software management solutions for commercial and industrial business organizations worldwide and to support the unique needs of research and development organizations. Eshbel Technologies is a provider of Enterprise Resource Management solutions.

Startup Zlango received a serious boost today, in the form of $12 million funding by two leading venture capital funds, Benchmark and Accel. The company’s valuation for the purposes of its financing round could not be elucidated.

In the past Zlango, which was founded by the ExScite Yoav Lorch, raised a million and a half dollars from private and angel investors.

Founded in 2003, Zlango developed a whole new language of icons for short messaging by cellphone.  The language consists of more than 200 icons, each of which stands for a word and which can together create sentences.

Zlango uses Java or small Brew, which works with most cellphones that operate on GSM or CDMA networks. ZMS (Zlango) messages are transferred over SMS or cellular Internet infrastructure using a designated server.

Lorch said the money will be used to advance use of Zlango to many environments. “We are operating along three avenues,” he said. “On the mobile avenue, we want as many people as possible to download the Zlango application and use it on their cellphone. We also want as many cellular carriers as possible to market the language. Another channel we want to develop Zlango around, is the web.” It could be customized into a private language, he adds.

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The ExScite Asher Leshem founded VPS more than a decade ago. Prior to establishing VPS, Asher worked at Orbotech Ltd. for nine years, serving as the Chief Engineer at the company?s CCD image acquisition group.
Asher also served as Senior Engineer at Scitex Corporation’s Opto-mechanical Division (plotters and scanners), for about nine years, and was in charge of developing complicated analog electro-optic systems for Scitex’s digital printing and scanning products.
Established in 1995 by Asher Leshem, VPS of Petach Tikva Israel provides complete design solutions for complicated analog and digital electro-optical systems. The company also offers comprehensive solutions for various security systems. The VPS team designs optimal system solutions for complex applications, See sample of recent projects here.
VPS’ clientele include leading companies such as: Orbotech, Applied Materials, Indigo, Scitex, El-Op, NICE, Motorola , IAI (Israeli Aircraft Industries), Kulick & Sofa Intex, Combact, Denx, Envision, Robomatics, Elpak, Racoom, Cognitense, Fruitonics, AVT, Spectral Diagnostics, Romidot, Sagita, and numerous others.