Gossip

Allison Druin (Ex-Scitex America) was nominated by the US President George W. Bush and Confirmed on January 26th by the U.S. Senate to serve a 5-year term on the United States National Commission of Libraries and Information Science.
In her role as Comissioner, she will help to effect policy concerning libraries and the dissemination and use of information in the US. 
Dr. Allison Druin is an assistant professor (click to see Allison?s website) at the College of Information Studies and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland. She will still continue as a faculty member at the University of Maryland where she leads the International Children’s Digital Library.

ColorGATE Digital Output Solutions GmbH appointed John Ingraham as Senior Strategic Development Manager.
In his new position, he shall handle business development activities for ColorGATE?s RIP software solutions for large format inkjet printers. He will additionally focus on technology and strategic planning for future ColorGATE products.
John began his career in the imaging industry over 20 years ago, which included management and development positions for industry imaging leaders such as IRIS Graphics, Oak Technology and Avid Technology. Most recently, he worked for LaserSoft Imaging AG to help support the development and project management activities for their scanner software products. John has published numerous articles in the areas of color management, inkjet printing, and awarded patents for digital halftoning and color reproduction.
Located in Hannover Germany, ColorGATE Digital Output Solutions GmbH is leading supplier of software for the digital print output. Founded in 1997, ColorGATE has established itself in only a few years with the development and marketing of user-friendly software solutions in the digital printing market.

Hanan Drory is the regional sales director of Creo in charge of Asia Pacific and operating from Singapore. See a Gossip piece we posted on February 5, 1999 here.

Hanan holds a respectable number of ExScite firsts:
1. Longest employee with Scitex since 9/1969 – 34 years and going strong (well,

Rami Liron is doing Business Development in Japan through his company TechWays Asia Pacific. Among his clients you can find the s/w company Babylon, Scitex Vision and others. He spends most of my time in Tokyo.
Rami was the President of Creo-Japan between 2000 and 2002. He joined Scitex Corporation in 1980 as Customer Support manager for Japan, a position he held until 1983. He then returned to Israel, where he managed the Customer Support organization of Scitex International until 1987, when he was transferred to Singapore to assume the role of Regional Manager, Asia. In 1989, he moved on to Hong Kong to work on market development in China. In 1992, Rami established the Scitex Asia-Pacific office and managed it for four years, leaving Scitex in 1996 to consult independently for hi-technology companies operating in the Asia-Pacific region.
When CreoScitex was formed in 2000, Rami joined as a Representative Director, taking responsibility for restructuring the Japanese subsidiary.

Bob Caspe starts his fourth venture.
Located in Shebron MA, the Caspe Group is a consulting company that offers a broad range of experience in the imaging and audio industries. Their experience ranges to include product development, marketing and off-shore manufacturing. Their broad range of product development skills include embedded systems and PC based network systems.
Between 1995 and 2003, Bob was Founder and President of Sound Vision, Inc Framingham, MA. Sound Vision created a series of TV-centric digital image viewing products that were sold through a number of OEM resellers.
From 1986 to 1995 he was the Co-Founder and President of Leaf Systems, Inc of Southboro, MA. Leaf Grew to over 30M in sales without the need for any external financing and was subsequently sold in 1992 to Scitex, Inc. Leaf sold image processing equipment, which was used by newspapers and magazines. Leaf also lead the field of digital photography with several innovative products.
Bob first start up was CDA of Waltham MA (1974-1986) where he was the Co-Founder and President. CDA lead the array processor market with the first microprocessor based array processor which was sold to several CAT and MRI system manufacturers. It was later sold to Analogic Inc.,
Dr. Carey Mann, a long time associate of Bob Caspe, and a co-founder of each of three other companies, has also joined the Caspe Group.

Giorgio Oliosi