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On a cold spring day a few veteran ExScite’s met in Cambridge
MA. In the picture abvoe, sitting from left to right: Shmuel
Halevy, Aharon Nizani, Corrine and Efi Arazi,
Yacov Levy.

Mike Druttman (druttman@futureweb.ws ) has ploughed an independent furrow since leaving Scitex in 1985 after three years as Corporate Marcom Manager. He freely admits that the corporate life was not for him, although he looks back warmly to the time he spent in the Scitex family, a new immigrant from the UK at the time. Since then he has focused on providing copywriting and marcom consultancy services to a wide spectrum of Israeli industry. This included Scitex, Indigo, Fishman Holdings, Koor, Mer, Tambour, and the Caspi and Yigal Arnon law firms. Mostly he worked for a whole raft of smaller high-tech companies – who have had great technology but not always the best way of presenting it. A dyed-in-the-wool Marcom man, Mike has been involved in just about every variation of the art – for business as well as marketing writing. For several years he was also involved with International Business Partnering and set up his own organization (www.primecontact.com). In 1998 he got hooked on the Internet as a business tool, and decided to concentrate on writing and marketing corporate websites for companies. This led to specializing in Web Marketing and promoting web sites in Search Engines, Directories and through Linking Strategies (www.futureweb.ws ). He reckons that web sites are the best way to combine marketing writing and business development. Most recently Mike has sharpened his skills in two directions: creating web sites for professionals like dentists and lawyers (www.cap600.com, www.arnon.co.il ) and working for large players in the Security & Surveillance industry (very big since 9/11).

Eli Sidi esidi@net-reality.com

Ahhh.. the good ol’ times, when we were younger and had wider smiles.. Eva Duvedevani sent us this picture, dated July 1992. It was taken at the Israeli “Oscars” for industrial movies where the Scitex customer-support/training group received a couple of awards.click for bigger picture
In the picture, standing in the back row from the left: Dennis Kaliser, Yoav Chelouche, Eva Duvdevani and Israel Bachar.
In the front row from the left: Deena Samech, Miriam Keshet, Tillie Baratz and Arie Segal.

Susan Willard sw@docksq.com is a

Carmel Rosenthal carmel.rosenthal@emblaze.com is the General Manager of Emblaze Systems Ltd. Tokyo Branch. Carmel was most recently General Manager for Vio Japan Limited, the telecommunication JV of British Telecom Plc and Scitex Corp. Previously he served as a senior executive for Nihon Scitex Ltd. in various roles. Carmel had moved to Japan from Scitex Herzlia R&D. In total he spent 14 years with Scitex, of which 10 were in Japan.
Founded in 1994, Emblaze Systems www.emblaze.com is listed on the London Stock Exchange (BLZ) with corporate headquarters in Israel and offices worldwide. Emblaze develops commercial mobile media solutions for wireless carriers, ISPs, content providers and handset manufacturers. With a product line ranging from wireless media platforms to MPEG-4 video ASIC semiconductors, Emblaze offers carrier-class, scalable solutions that facilitate the deployment and implementation of complete commercial media services over any wireless network.

Yoel Amir y.amir@ase-nl.com is the CEO
of ASE Advanced Systems Europe. For over 10 years prior to ASE Yoel
managed the IT group at STE in Brussels and earlier he was with
Scitex MIS in Herzlia.
Advanced Systems Europe http://www.ase-nl.com

Andrew Borg aborg@vaultus.com is VP
Marketing at Vaultus since July 2001.

Eva Duvdevani
has sent us this old picture from Drupa ’82
(click to
enlarge). It captured the moment when the application
engineers performed the traditional funny-demo at the end of the
show. Maarten
Strack (in the driver seat) showing
that he can operate the Imager even blindfolded.
If you recognize yourself sitting in the audience behind let me know.

Shmuel Halevi shalevi@aol.com, is the Co-Founder and President of Thetis Technologies in Boston MA.
Prior to joining Thetis, Shmuel owned and operated TurningPoint Associates, a Boston-based management consulting firm, which he founded in 1995. Prior to that he held senior management positions at The Technology Research Group and at i-Logix and was directly involved in the formation and development of numerous high-technology ventures. At Scitex (during late 70’s-mid 80’s) he established the Scitex presence in Osaka Japan, which was later transformed to be the STN Joint-Venture in Tokyo. After Japan, Shmuel graduated from the MIT?s Sloan School of management and later started the Scitex geophysical exploration imaging group in Boston.
Established in 2001, Thetis Technologies, www.thetistech.com  is a Boston-based company with R&D in Tel Aviv. The company develops and markets a complete Collaborative Enterprise Solution for the high-technology industry. Thetis helps corporations in automating and synchronizing development, engineering, operations, purchasing and sales, throughout the product lifecycle and across the extended enterprise. (ERP/CRM/supply chain management solution). The Israeli company Orckit Communication (Nasdaq:ORCT), is a major share holder of Thetis Technologies.