Gossip

Nadav Yassour Nadav@messagevine.com has
recently joined MessageVine. Prior to MessageVine, he was VP
Finance & CFO at InterPharm Laboratories Ltd., at RT-SET
Ltd., and at the Scitex digital camera group Leaf Systems
Inc. Nadav also worked at Scitex for 9 years as Manager of
Corporate Costing & Financial Planning Department, and as
Financial/Cost Systems Analyst. MessageVine www.MessageVine.com of
Ramat Hasharon, Israel provides Instant Messaging technology.

Roger Mattalon, Vice Chairman of Indigo, has
retired but will remain on Indigo’s board of directors.
Roger started with Indigo in 1994, when he became President of
Indigo’s European Four years later, with this goal achieved,
he became President of Indigo’s Worldwide Sales and
Marketing operations, and most recently served as Vice Chairman.
He spent 12 years at Scitex, where he served in various
management positions, the last one was VP Marketing at Scitex
Europe in 1984. From 1989 he served as President of Dai
Nippon Screen France, and spent the following five years, until
early 1994, as Chairman of the Board of Dai Nippon Screen UK Ltd,
and President of Dai Nippon Screen Belgium S.A., where he
established Dai Nippon Screen’s European headquarters.
Indigo of Rehovot Israel, manufactures and sells
digital presses based on Digital Offset Color, electro-ink
technology.

Improved
Technologies IT http://www.itnh.com/
of Northfield, N.H., has appointed Steve Potthoff spotthoff@itnh.com

Gil Aharoni gila@vsoft.com

The best
Israeli/Japanese (or is it Japanese/Israeli?) is no doubt Aviv
(Makoto) Haruta makoto.haruta@nifty.com

Yuko_Mori

We frequently report on ExScite members in the forefront of technology startups in Israel and in the US. Well, we have entrepreneurial members in Japan too. Yuko Mori <a href=”mailto:mori@ucom-net.co.jp”>mori@ucom-net.co.jp who spent 5 years at the marketing group at Nihon Scitex, left and started a company with three other partners. Ucom Corp. <a href=”http://www.ucom-net.co.jp/”>http://www.ucom-net.co.jp of Shinagawa, Tokyo Japan, is a document management
service-provider for the medical industry,

Want to buy some used Scitex and Iris stuff in the UK? Than
contact John Ponting john@freelancedigital.co.uk.
John spent 11 years (1985 to 1996)

Orbotech is one of the most populated ExScite strongholds, resulting from similarities of cultures between the old Scitex,
Orbot and Optrotech. Over the years we have reported on the lateral movement of people in key positions between the two companies.
Therefore, it is no surprise that when the Yavne, Israel based Orbotech www.orbotech.com decides to establish a new ventures arm- Orbotech Ventures, they naturally put an ExScite members at the top. Albert Yafe  has been appointed Chief Technology Officer. Albert had held key positions at Scitex R&D is a long-time Orbotech veterans; Asher having most recently held the position of Managing Director Orbotech’s Hong Kong subsidiary, and Albert having previously served as Orbotech’s VP R&D. In addition, Kobi Olin joined the new venture. Kobi had also worked at Scitex R&D before moving to Orbotech.
Orbotech Technology Ventures, a new corporate venture fund has just been established to develop and expand opportunities for growth and further strengthen Orbotech’s overall position within the electronics industry. Orbotech designs, develops, manufactures, markets and services production support solutions for the supply chain of the electronics industry, principally for printed circuit boards (PCBs), and flat panel displays (FPDs).
The ExScite members at Orbotech are: Noam Cohen, Guy Alon, Albert Yafe, Arnon Hazoni, Barry Ben-Ezra, Chanoch Biran, Yossi Hanenin, Isaac Duanis, Kobi Olin, Moshe Hansav, Richard Klapholtz, Shmuel Gov, Victor Wrobel, Yossi Faybish,Kobi Stern, Yosh Dolberg, Moshe Netzer, Amit Linenberg.