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Spectrum Dynamics is a pioneering medical device company specializing in the development and implementation of innovative molecular functional imaging technology, accessories and applications.  The company was founded in early 2000 and is located near Haifa, Israel. Spectrum Dynamics’ medical imaging technology is able to detect abnormalities as small as a few mm in size with very high sensitivity, significantly shortening the functional imaging procedure, and enabling dynamic imaging and compartmental analysis of various pathologies.

Three of ExScite finest hold key positions there:

Michael Nagler PhD., is the company’s general manager & COO since 2003. Miki had been the co-founder and CEO of Aprion, which was later merged with Scitex Vision and now is a division at HP inkjet group. As the Scitex Corporate VP and General Manager, Product Divisions, he managed a group of six product divisions. Earlier he was VP R&D at Iris Graphics, a Scitex division in Boston.

Haim Melman is the VP R&D since 2004. Haim joined Spectrum Dynamics following a 15-year career at Scitex Corporation Ltd. At Scitex, he held the position of Director of R&D for the corporation’s Input Systems Division. Haim also served as the Chairman of The CMOS Technical Committee, part of the MAGNET project of the Israeli Ministry of Industry and Commerce. In addition, his experience in the medical imaging equipment industry includes developing digital angiography systems at Elscint, Ltd. and as VP R&D at Orex Computed Radiology, Ltd.
Prior to joining Spectrum Dynamics, Haim has also co-founded and managed InfoBit, Ltd. and JetPic, Inc., operating in knowledge management and marketing software solutions.
Thirteen patents have been published based on his work.
Yossi Kamir is the company’s R&D Lab Supervisor. he has 18 years of experience as R&D Lab Supervisor at Scitex, input & output devices, Cubital 3D, Creo Scitex, Aprion and was the co-founder of VaryFrame.

Eric J. Freer (ExScite STA) is the founder and CEO of Evolution Management Partners, www.usemp.com.  Evolution Management Partners is a global consulting and professional service firm with a focus on the medical, life science and healthcare industry. Evolution advises companies on issues of sales, marketing, strategy, organization, technology, and operations in emerging markets.
Evolution Management Partners  www.usemp.com provides focused and comprehensive solutions for the complex challenges that manufacturers and marketers contend with in the evolving and highly competitive medical, life sciences and healthcare industry. Evolution assists their clients during each phase of the business cycle. Beginning with conceptualization and funding, through early evaluation and strategic marketing and later through development and future commercialization.

Dani Rosenthal is the founder and managing director of Selenium Verification Technologies Ltd.
Dani has 25 years experience in software development and R&D management in leading Israeli high tech companies. Dani held the position of Vice President R&D at Oradnet Ltd., a spin-off of Orad and Intel in the immersive sport webcasting industry. Prior to this, Dani was the co-founder and R&D software manager of Portalis Ltd., a start-up in the digital printing industry. In addition, Dani spent 13 years at Scitex Corp. as a software engineer and R&D group leader.
Selenium Verification Technologies provides automatic software verification solutions for the software escrow industry. EscrowSafeTM, Selenium’s solution, is a suite of software applications enabling reliable, automatic, fast and cost effective Software Escrow Deposit generation and verification, upon first-time deposit and any later update.

New Hampshire-based Dimatix/Spectra Inc., announced that it has named the ExScite Edward T. Chrusciel to the newly formed position of Marketing Director. In his role, he will be responsible for overseeing the company?s marketing, brand building and communications as well as driving expansion into new markets.See press release here.
Most recently, Ed was Director of Consumable Products at Iris Graphics, a Scitex/Creo Company, where he was responsible for its entire line of ink and paper products. Before iris, he was also with Hell and Optonics.
Dimatix is a developer and manufacturer of high-performance ink jet printheads and components used in a broad range of industrial, non-impact imaging applications through its Spectra Printing Division. The Dimatix Materials Deposition Division is evolving ink jetting technology into a production process that lowers the cost, time and environmental impact of producing electronic circuits and functions for RFID tags, flat panel displays, circuit boards and other electronic and bioscience applications. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif.; its Spectra division is located in Lebanon, New Hampshire; and its customer base is worldwide.

Oded Rose is VP Marketing at Atlantium.
Prior to Atlantium he was Managing Director of Aurum Ventures, a key shareholder in Atlantium. In Aurum Oded led investments in the life sciences and telecom infrastructure areas. Prior to joining Aurum, Oded was a General Partner of Walden, an international venture capital group. There he focused and led investments in the communications infrastructure area. Before Walden Oded was a Senior Associate in the Communications practice of Booz Allen & Hamilton, a management consulting firm based in New York. Prior to that Oded worked for eight years in the R&D division of Scitex Corp. in Israel.
Founded in 2003Atlantium develops and provides water disinfection solutions that help businesses and municipalities  build, expand and operate water-intensive processes using UV water disinfection method. 
Read more in Business Week article: Israel: Waterworks for the World? and IsraCast article: Out of the box- safer water

After 22 years at Scitex in the US and in Israel, Zvi Jalfin has turned his hobby into a profession. He has been passionate about photography since his grandfather gave him an old Kodak Duaflex Camera.
Zvi offers professional portrait and events photography services in the Boston metropolitan area.
Click here to see Zvi?s web site. http://www.jalfinphoto.com

Avi Rabi

The ExScite Avi Raby has joined Jemtex Ltd in Lod, Israel as CEO .
Jemtex is developing industrial wide-fornat inkjet printers for fabric, ceramic tiles and corrugated cartons.  The majority of Jemtex shares are held by Scailex. Before joining Jemtex,  Avi was the CEO of SDT  and raised $5 millions from Sequoia capital.
In his 24 years in Scitex, Avi has held various positions, including: European Customer Support Director, International Purchasing Director and Vice President of Human Resources at Scitex Corp. General Manager of Creo ME&A. Later he was the CEO of KlearVision Ltd.;

XMPie announced the promotion of the ExScite Yaron Mohaban to the position of Vice President of European Sales. Yaron will spearhead sales growth in the European market;
In his previous role, Yaron served as Director of European Channels for XMPie, where he helped build the European market into a major revenue generator for the software pioneer. Prior to joining XMPie, Yaron fulfilled a variety of management roles at CreoScitex in R&D, sales and marketing. He was marketing manager of the Scitex OEM team for Xerox, and directed the relationship between Creo and Xerox in the Americas. Yaron headed the successful introduction of the Scitex Spire digital front end in the U.S.
The Israeli  XMPie is solutions provider for cross-media dynamic publishing ? a segment of the CRM and Marketing Automation market. XMPie?s software enables enterprises and their marketing service providers to efficiently develop and execute highly customized, information driven, cross-media campaigns.

Carmela Avner serves as VP global operations and CIO at Nice Systems since January 2002. Prior to this she served as Corporate Vice President and Chief Information Officer since January 2000.
Before joining NICE, Carmela was the Sales Executive for the Manufacturing Sector for EDS, Israel. Prior to joining EDS, she held several positions at Teva Pharmaceuticals including, Systems Manager and MIS Manager for the operations department. Among other positions held, she also served at Scitex in Israel and at Tel-Aviv University. 
NICE Systems (NASDAQ: NICE) is a provider of unstructured multimedia content ? from telephony, web, radio and video communications.  With annual revenues of more than $300M the Israeli company Nice has over 23,000 customers in 100 countries, including over 75 of the Fortune 100 companies.

Lynda Schlosberg is a professionally trained Graphic Designer, Creative Director, and Project Manager who has worked in high-tech commercial and non-profit environments for over 22 years.
Lynda has extensive experience in developing, implementing and managing large-scale Web sites and in developing brand identity and communication systems for companies such as Sybase, Inc., Powersoft Corp., Progress Software, Allaire, Macromedia, State Street, Nortel Networks, Riverton, Newmarket International, Scitex America, Hurricane Voices, and the MITRE Corporation.
She has specialized on integrating brand identities for companies that have experienced a merger or multiple acquisitions, and in developing and implementing the strategy to extend their business model and brand image onto the Internet.

From 1990-1994 she worked at Scitex America., in Bedford, MA as Design Manager, Corporate Communications, Applications Manager, Product Marketing, Product Specialist and Product Marketing.