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The ExScite Yuval Rahamim is the founder and general manager of FORMA Group, a company specializing in the development and ongoing implementation of effective marketing communications schemes for Israeli hi-tech companies.
Joining Scitex (Herzlia) in 1997 as a webmaster in the “great Marcom department”, Yuval broadened the boundaries of the corporate web site to reflect the dynamic presence of the company and its units in the pre-press arena. “It was then, in the Scitex Marcom Department, with its global reaches, when I realized the essential role of an effective marketing communications team to the sales performance of an Israeli technology-oriented company” says Yuval.
After leaving Scitex, Yuval served in several start up companies as Internet team leader, Marcom manager, and finally as Marcom Director at VocalTec. Adds yuval “Leaving VocalTec in 2001, I realized the marketing world as we knew it has changed and marketing communications will have to revolutionize in order to pursue its role in the structure of Israeli companies and their sales cycle. There was no more room for a large team of skilled professionals performing all the various tasks inside the organizations. Only a handful of companies need and can practically and financially support this structure.”
With this concept in mind, Yuval formed FORMA Group (www.formagroup.biz ), a team of hi-tech company marketing communications professional veterans that can easily and quickly fit a solution to the needs of any budding or blooming technology company. Located in Netanya, FORMA Group now serves on a regular or project basis, some of the leading Israeli startup companies, bringing them the excitement and enthusiasm of the glorious days of the Scitex spirit. Forma cover the entire range of Marcom activities and form a custom-tailored task force that meets your company’s exact requirements and immediate objectives, including: budgeting, production and delivery of marketing and corporate communications– printed, electronic, press and events.

VioWorldwide’s Chief Technology Officer is the ExScite Yaron Goldstein.
Yaron was one of the founders of Vio Worldwide. He joined Graphor Ltd. prepress in 1983, one of the earliest adaptors of the first Scitex systems in Israel. He was at Printer Industria Grafica SA Barcelona, one of Spain’s largest printing factories and part of the Bertelsmann group, and managed the digital prepress at Pioneer Plates Ltd., Israel’s largest packaging prepress specialists.
Yaron joined the Scitex Corporation as a senior application specialist and introduced packaging prepress and on demand digital printing systems to customers in Australia and Japan.
Vio offers a suite of software products, network provisioning and management expertise with 24×7 managed services for the intelligent distribution and collaborative management of advertising and digital media across the entire graphic arts supply chain, with guaranteed delivery.
Since its founding in 1998, Vio Worldwide  has been enabling its customers to more efficiently manage their digital supply chain and leverage their digital assets. Vio Worldwide’s more than 10,000 users, range from the world’s top publishers, prepress providers and printers, to ad agencies, retailers, consumer products manufacturers, packagers and Government departments. Vio Worldwide is part of London Merchant Securities plc, a UK-based company.

Roni Zomber is the VP Operations at NUR Macroprinters Ltd.since December 2003.
Previously, Roni served as VP Operations and a management team member at M-Systems Ltd., a company specializing in flash memory disks. Earlier in his career, Roni Zomber served 9 years at Scitex Corporation as a planning and control manager.  
Founded in 1991 and located in Lod, Israel NUR Macroprinters makes wide-format inkjet printing systems for the out-of-home advertising market. NUR develops, manufactures and markets wide-format inkjet printers and presses and high-quality companion inks for a wide variety of applications. NUR’s inkjet presses address the full spectrum of wide-format printing requirements. Nur’s customers produce out-of-home advertising applications, including point-of-sale displays, billboards, banners, building wraps, vehicle graphics and more.
Nur’s CEO and many of its other executives are ExScite’s themselves.

Roni Or is the General Manager and VP Product Development at Proficiency in Israel.
Roni manages all of Proficiency’s operations in Jerusalem, Israel, including the company’s product development organization.
Previously, Roni served as general manager of Jacada, Ltd., and vice president of product development for BackWeb Technologies. Earlier, in senior positions with Scitex Israel, he managed the systems division and led the division development of the Scitex workstation product line. 
Proficiency brings interoperability to the enterprise. Proficiency’s Collaboration Gateway allows companies to effectively develop and launch new products by providing critical design intelligence to all constituents in the PLM continuum, including marketing, engineering, manufacturing, and purchasing, in an immediately useable format, regardless of the original system. It leads OEMs and suppliers to significantly shorten design cycles, decrease time-to-market, and lower design costs.

 Aviv (Makoto) Haruta is the Manager, Public Relations department at Toyo Ink Mfg. Co.,Ltd.
Prior to his recent promotion, Aviv was the manager at the Itabashi Tokyo-based GA-City, a 50/50 joint venture between Sakata INX and Toyo Ink. Toyo Ink has been the partner with Scitex in the NihonScitex joint Venture, turned Nihon CreoScitex Ltd. Prior to GA-City Aviv spent a total of 13 years with Scitex, both in Japan and in Israel. In addition to Japanese and English he also speaks good Hebrew. 
The Japanese Toyo Ink is involved in two key fields:
A. In the graphic arts field, centered on printing inks, Toyo Ink is delivering various environmentally conscious products, and total solution systems based on digital technology.
B. The chemical field includes: polymer products such as paints, resins, adhesives and high performance materials; and colorant products such as pigments, plastic colorants, and electronic media materials.

CGS Publishing Technologies International announced the appointment of the ExScite Heiner M