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Dan Vandsburger 新業務開發部門副主管 is sales manager at communication company Starhome since 2002.
From 1999 to 2002 Dan was VP Marketing & Business Development at Witcom a provider of high capacity microwave radio links operating in licensed frequency bands.
Prior to Witcom he was director of EMEA sales at NICE Systems a supplier of Computer Telephony Integrated systems
From 1990 to 1995 Dan was Sales & Marketing Manager at Scitex. He was in charge of Sales & Marketing of the Middle-East – Africa SBC.
The Israeli company Starhome  delivers roaming technology and value added services that maximize roaming business potential for mobile network operators. Starhome is enabler of network inter-operability for mobile operators with convergent solutions based on mobile technology, inter-network infrastructure and roaming applications

Bruno Serrien

Following our posting of the Dec 28 ExScite News item about the sale of the Scitex mechanical plant in Herzlia, the ExScite Bruno Serrien Emailed us this from Singapore:

Bruno Serrien is a member of the ACM Management team and a Director of the Israeli subsidiary. ACM recently completed his takeover of Kodak (ex-Scitex) Mechanical Plant.

ACM is already a supplier to Kodak since several years. ACM has companies in Malaysia, Singapore, China and Israel (Axiom Precision). ACM revenues is US$35 million /year and key customers are Kodak, HP, Xerox.
ACM Group is  specialized in:
*Critical Precision Engineering Components
*Precision Optics
*Electromechanical Assemblies
*Module/Sub system Equipment Integration

Previously to ACM, Bruno was a Divisional Director within the Automotive Industry responsible for over 100mio euro revenues.  Within Scitex he held several managerial positions in Sales, Finance and Logistics in Europe and the Far East.

 Gidi Benyamini, COO of Notal Vision.
Prior to joining Notal Vision, he was VP of Engineering and Manufacturing at LaserComm, a telecommunications company based in Dallas, Texas. Prior to that and for a period of 7 years he held various managerial positions at Scitex Corp. in Israel.

Located in Tel Aviv Israel, the medical tools company Notal Vision is developing comprehensive diagnostic solutions for the early detection and monitoring of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness in the western world today. Notal?s Preferential Hyperacuity Perimetery – Foresee PHP? platform, is designed to detect and monitor the progression of the disease in a non-invasive manner. Since its launch in 2004, the PHP has been sold eye care professionals in the US and has gained a reputation as an outstanding tool for the detection of the conversion of dry to wet AMD.

The Exscite Eran Tamir is VP operations at Corrigent.
Prior to Corrigent Eran was VP operations for Orckit Communications. Prior to joining Orckit, he who was one of the founders of Wizcom Technologies Ltd., and served as VP operations. Eran has also previously served as Director of Worldwide Logistics of Indigo Ltd. and Director of Acquisitions of Scitex Corporation Ltd.

Corrigent leads a new class of metro-optical transport products that is revolutionary in its economics. Corrigent?s CM-100 is a packet-ADM that fuses together SONET/SDH technologies such as Virtual Concatenation, GFP, and LCAS, with packet technologies such as RPR, Ethernet and MPLS, to evolve today’s SONET/SDH-based transport infrastructure to the next generation packet-based transport network, in both a standards-based and interoperable manner. This breakthrough architecture solves the metro dilemma for service providers worldwide by allowing them to bridge their existing SONET services with next-generation data, voice and video services.
The Israeli Corrigent is based in San Jose, with an R&D center in Israel. Orckit Communications (NASDAQ: ORCT) is the parent company of Corrigent.

Erez Meltzer

The ExScite Erez Meltzer is the CEO of Africa Israel, he joined them earlier in 2006.
Previously, he was the President and CEO of Netafim, a global leader in advanced irrigation and agro water technologies, President and CEO of CreoScitex, and a number of telecommunications and semiconductors companies.
A veteran Colonel (res) in the IDF, he serves as Chairman of the Friends’ Association of the Loewenstein Rehabilitation Hospital, the Israeli Chapter of the YPO, Chairman of the Israel-Jordan Chamber of Commerce, and is a director on a number boards of Israeli High-tech companies.
Africa Israel Investments Ltd. is an international holding and investment company that is extremely active in an extensive range of investments in Israel and abroad. As one of the largest and most dynamic investment companies in Israel, Africa Israel Investments has justly earned a reputation for uncompromising quality and professionalism as a characteristic of its activities. The company’s business policy is based on planned investments, locating opportunities, initiating projects and introducing innovative management tactics. The company is traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE).

Aron Blume

is Global Platform Development Manager at HubCast.
Aron is a color management specialist and process improvement professional with a Six Sigma Master Black Belt. He has extensive experience in technology development, product management and support. Aron?s background includes 15 years with Scitex and Creo in Israel and in Boston, providing cutting-edge solutions to the graphics and print communications supply chain.
HubCast Inc of  Burlington, MA is a technology platform that empowers Communication Services Firms to deliver distributed print for their enterprise clients. We leverage a powerful team, an alliance of partners, and the most advanced digital print technologies. HubCast is a tool that enables modern print communications service providers to help their enterprise client maximize Return On Communications Investment (ROCI). The HubCast community is creating a market leading exchange for boundary-less growth.

The ExScite Alan Weisleder is EVP Sales at GigaSpaces.
Alan is responsible for sales activities in Europe, Asia and Africa. Prior to joining GigaSpaces, he was CEO of the ASP company NewChannel, which was later acquired by LivePerson.
Previously, Alan worked as Group Manager of IT Solutions at Scitex Corporation.
GigaSpaces distributed applications enable developers to Write their business logic once and then scale the application linearly anywhere, and on-demand. It is targeted at applications characterized by high-volume transaction processing and low-latency requirements and provides an alternative to web services for implementing high performance and scalable service-oriented architectures. GigaSpaces customers include leaders in the financial services, telecommunications sectors, and government institutions. The privately held company was founded in 2000 and has offices in Herzliya, New York, San Francisco, London, and Paris.

Aliza Peleg

Aliza Peleg is Managing Director of SAP Labs U.S. In this role, Aliza is responsible for the strategy and operations of the Lab. In addition to Labs U.S., Aliza?s role includes positioning the SAP Global Development Network as a significant competitive advantage of the company. Aliza joined SAP in March 2001 after SAP acquired TopTier Software, where she was General Manager of TopTier Israel for five years. Prior to joining TopTier, Aliza was Director of Business Development at Scitex Corporation in Israel and Marketing Manager at Apple Computer. Aliza began her professional career in Development, and grew into a variety of leadership positions in both Marketing & Product Management. In the second half of her career, Aliza held several senior management positions in Business Development and Operations.
Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, SAP Labs U.S. is the first SAP Lab established outside of Germany. The mission of SAP Labs U.S. is to leverage the many valuable assets within Silicon Valley and the expansive U.S. market in order to drive innovation, strategic partnering, and field support/customer success.  The group creates dynamic partnerships that foster collective innovation.  builds communities at multiple levels by participating in local business, academic, and social relationships.

Roni Zomber

is Vice President of Operations at UltraShape.
Roni joined UltraShape in August 2006, and brings with him over 20 years of experience in Operations Management. Prior to joining UltraShape, he served as VP of Operations at Nur Macroprinters LTD., a company specializing in outboard digital printers and M-systems, a leader in the field of transforming raw flash into smart storage solutions. In addition, Roni served as a Senior VP at Nice Systems LTD. Eralier, Roni was 9 years at Scitex Corp. in Herzlia.
UltraShape of Yokneam, Israel is a dynamic, leading edge company that develops, manufactures and markets innovative, non-invasive solutions for the aesthetic medical field. The company?s highly skilled team of professionals and scientists has applied its singular ultrasound know-how into developing the first ultrasound-based system for totally non-invasive body contouring ? a treatment that places UltraShape at the cutting edge of body contouring technology.

Mooki Talby

is the Director, OEM Marketing – Americas offices of Creo POD.
Mooki, who had left Scitex and now came back, brings with him extensive experience in the traditional and digital printing markets. Before rejoining Creo in August 2003, Mooki served as the VP of Marketing for Textology, a start-up company that develops text analysis solutions for the news media and defense markets. Prior to that, he held various marketing, product management and business development positions at Creo and Scitex.

The Creo Print On-Demand Solutions group (Creo POD Solutions) develops and supports high-performance digital color servers for a range of digital printers and presses. It also develops advanced on-demand applications to enable the creation of personalized direct mail, targeted catalogs and other powerful one-to-one marketing communications tools. In September 2005, Creo POD Solutions emerged as an independent entity from the acquisition of (the Scitex Graphic Arts group, then called) Creo Inc., by Kodak’s Graphic Communications Group (GCG).
The Creo Print On-Demand Solutions group currently supplies digital workflow products to such industry leaders as Hewlett-Packard, IKON, Konica Minolta, and Xerox Corporation.
The group invests considerable resources in providing its partners and customers with the very best products, services and technologies to help them meet their specific goals.
As the independent portal for Kodak?s digital workflow solutions, Creo POD Solutions will continue to help its customers leverage their investment in digital print, and to spearhead the ?digital revolution?.