Gossip

The two ExScite’s in IO Integration in California are: 1) Paul Cascio (VP sales) who was with Scitex America and Dalim.
And 2) Dave Duncan (Apple sales consultant) in the picture, who provided network support products and services under the name Fast Networks. Before that he was dir. System engineering at Benta and engineer and consultant at Scitex America.
IO Integration of San Francisco CA specializes in server automation, digital asset management and web-based production tools for the graphic arts application market. IO Integration has been nominated number 78 on D&B the fastest-growing new entrepreneurial businesses in America HOT-100 list . See at Entrepreneur.com.

KG Communications’ founder and president, the ExScite Kathryn K. (Kit) Goldfarb has provided support for established companies such as Newbridge Networks as well as launching start-ups such as BroadSoft, SALIX Technologies, and Village Networks.
For 2 years she was part of the Marcom team at Scitex in Herzlia during the middle of the 80?s. Kit has provided communications counsel and support to CEOs of large and small companies, spearheaded company and product launches, provided PR and employee communications support and handling media and analyst relations and employee, corporate and marketing communications.
Kit has sent us a picture of her grandchildren to post here.
KG Communications is a full-service public relations and corporate communications firm focusing on telecommunications and data communications. Founded in January 1999, KG Communications has led some of the industry?s most successful product and company launches. Headquartered in the northern Virginia technology corridor, KG Communications partners with clients to define their corporate mission and develop the communications strategies to secure them a leadership position and define a distinctive identity and niche.

Ira Gold is the Vice President Production at UMS.
Prior to UMS, Ira managed a graphic arts consulting practice in New Jersey and was a speaker at various graphic arts conferences. He was part of Scitex America application group in the 1980?s and before that he was with Crosfield.
Since 1981, the Springfield VA based UMS-United Marketing Solutions has provided marketing support to local merchants, professionals and service providers throughout America. UMS services include product design, layout, printing and mailing in addition to Internet marketing development and hosting.

Kodak Versamark announced the appointment of the ExScite Marc Johnson as Director of Industry Marketing.
In this role, Marc will work with Kodak Versamark’s sales, product and marketing teams to promote the company’s digital printing solutions to print providers, print specifiers, influencers, and industry associations. His activities will be focused on the graphic arts market segment. Marc will report to the ExScite Ron J. Gilboa,

The ExScite and Genoa Color?s CEO Ilan Ben-David has held various top managerial positions in the printing industry, particularly at Scitex. In the last position he held there, Ilan was VP research and CTO of Karat Digital Press (KDP), a joint venture owned by Scitex and KBA, of which he was a cofounder. Prior to his joining Scitex, he was a group manager with Optrotech (later merged with Orbot to form Orbotech). Ilan is an electrical and mechanical engineer, with numerous patents and patent applications in diversified fields.
Genoa Color Technologies of Herzlia Pituach, a four-year old Israeli startup, develops technologies to significantly enhance image quality and the viewing experience for a wide range of displays.
On 11/2004 the company has won Grand Award in the Home Entertainment category of Popular Science magazine?s 2004 Best Of What?s New competition. The winning technology is the company?s ColorPeak Multi-Primary Color, a television display system that substantially enhances the TV viewing experience by nearly doubling the color capability and brightness of TV displays.
?It is a great honor for Genoa Color Technologies to have ColorPeak selected by the editors of Popular Science as Home Entertainment?s top new technology,? Ilan said.

The Ex-Nihon-Scitex (STN) Takashi Hidaki, director of System Integration department at GA City has sent us this interesting update on another ExScite-intensive company, this time, in Japan.
Hidaki-San has been working for GA City since July 2003, together with other Ex-STN people. The 10 Ex-STN people (a third of the total company employees!) are :Toshibumi Iwabuch, Hiroshi Umekage, Masao Obata, Mitsutoshi Konishi, Takeshi Obikawa, Singo Kotsugai, Yasuko Adachi, Kazuhito Hasegawa, Takashi Yanase.
GA-City is a 50-50 joint venture between TOYO INK and SAKATAINX, an alliance encompassing several prepress technology areas since 2000. GA City?s mission is to provide technical sales support for TOYO INK and SAKATA?s prepress equipment business.
Half of the 30 employees come from STN/TOYO INK and the other half are from SAKATA. Located in Tokyo Japan, GA City has a multi-vendor show room, which is very unique in Japan. The equipment includes: CTP (Creo, DN Screen), DDCP (KPG, Fuji, Konica), RIP (Creo, Screen, Hidelberg, Fuji, H/Q, ArtworkSystem, Eskograhics), Inkjiet printers (HP,Epson,Cannon) and other peripheral equipment. They can now demonstrate to customers using multi-vendor equipment, emulating actual work flow at a customer site. In addition, they provide customers with various technical services including CMS as well as preparing a total system proposal from input to output in multi-vendor configuration to the customers. GA City has two main departments:
1) System Integration department, which covers system consultation and proposal to the customers (managed by Hidaki).
2) Marketing Information department, which operates the showroom and provides technical services for the customers.