Gossip

William T. [Bill] Davison  is the Vice President, Strategic Marketing and Customer Services at Presstek since January of 2003.
Bill leads Presstek’s customer service, business development and strategic marketing efforts.
Prior to joining Presstek, he was Founder and Principal of Point Balance, Inc., a business consulting firm, where he worked with clients to build high-performance printing and publishing enterprises through process design, technology and organizational development. 
He also served as Vice President-Customer Services at Scitex America Corp; Director-Strategic Technologies at Kodak’s Advanced Technology; and Director-Strategic Planning and Business Development at Kodak Electronic Printing Systems. Bill has also taught extensively and served as an independent Technical Consultant for the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation in Pittsburgh PA. 
Presstek, Inc. is a developer and manufacturer of digital laser imaging and chemistry-free plate technologies for the printing and graphic arts industries. Presstek?s DI, CTP and chemistry-free plate products eliminate photographic darkrooms, film and toxic processing chemicals, fostering a more productive printing workflow, lowering overall production costs and reducing environmental impact. Presstek partners with press manufacturers, enabling over 90% of the DI presses installed worldwide. Presstek?s Dimension Series of CTP systems are available in two-, four-, and eight-page models.
The company also manufactures chemistry-free printing plates for both DI press and CTP applications. Presstek is a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: PRST) located in Hudson, New Hampshire, approximately 45 miles north of Boston, Massachusetts.

Late last year Glyn Evans joined Vutek Belgium as the European Director Service & Support. Glyn left Scitex Europe in 1995, after 15 years with the company and joined Indigo. Most recent position at Indigo (HP-Indigo division) was Director Customer Support for Europe.
Vutek Europe, a branch of the American company Vuetk is located in Zaventum, Belgium. The company is a supplier of super-wide format digital inkjet printers to the graphic arts market. Vutek’s current product portfolio includes the UltraVu? product range, for high quality, high speed printing in 2-, 3-, and 5-meter formats, and its PressVu? family of digital inkjet flatbed printers, capable of printing on both rigid and flexible substrates using UV-curable or solvent-based inks.

The former president of Scitex America (in the early 80?s) Paul Rosenbaum is Managing Partner of Wayland Partners Ltd., a Boston suberb based consulting firm helping technology companies raise early stage capital.
In an article —Ready Or Not? –published in “Entrepreneur magazine” [August 1999] Paul is interviewed about raising capital saying “Before you start shaking the trees for investors, make sure you’re prepared to catch them“.
Click here to read the article.
Paul has also been President and CEO of Proteon Inc., and Xyplex Inc. Previously, he was Vice President, International Operations for Motorola’s subsidiary, Codex Corporation. Later in his career, he was a General Partner for the venture capital firm American Research & Development. He has made over a dozen investments in technology companies including Active Control eXperts, Tau Tron, CERJAC and many other private companies.

After selling his first company to Creo, the ExScite Dov Berliner founded his second startup- Carmel Vision.
Prior to his start-up career, Dov spent 18 years with Scitex, both in Israel and in North America.
Carmel Vision specializes in office content management, communication and video conferencing software solutions Carmel Vision was incorporated in January of 2002.
The company is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Carmel Vision’s knowledge in software development, networking and system integration dates back to 1990 when Dov founded his first company, Carmel Graphics, a java-based software development company offering products to the graphic arts market. Carmel Graphics was sold to Creo in May of 2000 and was later integrated into PrintCafe.
Carmel Vision is currently looking for dealers and distributors worldwide. For dealership opportunities contact Dov at http://carmelvision.com/contactus.shtml  

Philip Lavee has been appointed VP sales and marketing at MediaWorks.
Prior to joining MediaWorks, Philip held the position of VP sales and business development at Pictos Technologies, Inc., a supplier of semiconductor and system solutions for digital imaging applications. In his position at Pictos, Philip was responsible for leading the company?s expansion and penetration into the Far East digital photography market. Before Pictos he held executive management positions in digital imaging companies including Lumero, Inc., Zing Networks and Pix.com.
Philip spent 13 years at Scitex and Leaf in various position in Israel and in the USA. Located in Irvine CA, MediaWorks Integrated Systems, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company that is developing highly integrated, Systems-on-a-Chip (SoC) solutions for consumer video capture and display appliances. These devices include digital camcorders, digital still cameras, consumer security cameras, PDA cameras, and portable personal video recorders (P/PVR).

Tzipi Netz, is the V.P. Product Management at Press-Sense. Tzipi worked at Scitex and its daughter companies for nine years, carrying out product management and customer relation duties. Among the various products, Tzipi designed and managed the development of the Scitex Brisque Impose and was a part of the 74-Karat project. Press-sense of Natanya, Israel is a developer of information management software solutions for the printing industry.

The Ex Libris Group announced that the ExScite.
Dan Trajman
has been appointed President of the Company?s US subsidiary, Ex Libris (USA),
effective immediately.
Dan
joins Ex Libris after having served as the President of Sapiens Americas, a
wholly owned subsidiary of Sapiens International N.V. (NASDAQ: SNPS) where he
was responsible for the company?s business strategy in the US market.
Previously, he was President and CEO of iKnowledge, Inc., a company which
provides Internet content management software for high-impact, database driven
applications.
Dan was with Scitex America in the 80’s and 90’s in various marketing and
application positions.

Earlier this year, another ExScite joined Ex Libris, in Jerusalem Israel.
Lior Ofer
has been appointed Director Of Global Support. He was with Scitex for 14
years.

Ex Libris (Jerusalem, Israel) is
company, a developer and provider of applications for libraries, information
centers and researchers. ALEPH, the Ex Libris integrated library solution, has
been installed at over 800 sites and consortia in over 50 countries. MetaLib,
the information portal for library collections, and SFX, the context-sensitive
link server for heterogeneous electronic resources in the scholarly information
environment, have been purchased by more than 530 institutions in 30 countries.
As a component of an overall digital strategy, DigiTool, a solution for
constructing digital collections, rounds out the Ex Libris product suite.

Thomas Langer is a venture partner at the Israeli Venture capital Pitango.

BullDog
Products of Orange County CA, is one of the premier suppliers in the digital
printing industry. The company provides a wide variety of high-performance
canvases, watercolor papers, inks, coatings, embellishment products, wide-format
digital printers and any
other
printing equipment such as scanners and RIP software.

The Ex-STA John Doe is the CEO and the largest shareholder of BullDog Products and has been
one of the early pioneers in Gicl