Gossip

Ofer Schneid is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Indocs (www.indocs.com) Indocs’ R&D center is located in Herzelia, Israel.. The company products provide platform for editing documents in a web browser. In 1994 he founded Media Solutions Ltd., a multimedia software house products and served as President and CEO until 1997. He also served for three years as Director of R&D Projects at Kodak, and for four years as Senior Engineer and Project Leader at Scitex Corporation in Boston. His past experience includes work with the Israel-based Shoken Group, a publishing operation.

After 19 years at Scitex, Yossi Faybish yfa@orbotech.com has move on. He has joined Orbotech in Brussels as Image Line Manager. Yossi worked at R&D in Israel and later held various technical and management positions, in customer support and marketing at STE in Brussels. Orbotech (www.orbotech.com) provides technology solutions used by electronics manufacturers to facilitate production of printed circuit boards (PCBs), flat panel displays (FPDs) and electronics assemblies.

John Ingraham john_ingraham@avid.com has been appointed to the position of Senior Program Manager at Avid Technologies (www.avid.com) Internet group – AvidProNet (www.avidpronet.com). Avid, a company specialized in video editing software is located in Tewksbury, MA, just north of Boston. The AvidPro group develops virtual production environments and image asset management systems for film and video editing.
John was a senior color scientist at Iris Graphics.

LbOnWeb

Lior D. Ma’ayan Lior@compugen.co.il is the VP and Chief Operating Officer of LabOnWeb.com, Compugen’s Internet research tool.
The Talpiot alum Lior Ma’ayan joined Compugen after 13 years in the imaging technology field. He held various positions in research, business development, sales and lastly as the Managing Director of a division all with Scitex in Israel and Europe. Prior to that, he served as a Research Officer in the Israeli Air Force, developing image processing algorithms.
Compugen’s LabOnWeb is the Web’s first life science research engine. LabOnWeb enriches and enhances lab experiments, enabling more efficient, productive life science research.
Compugen NasdaqNM:CGEN) http://www.cgen.com/ is a pioneer in the fields of computational genomics and proteomics. The company just raised $50M in a public offering in early August.

Haim Shani

The Israeli company NICE Systems , has announced the appointment of two ExScite members to its most senior positions (for more details see the ExScite NEWS column on the left):
Haim Shani, a vice president of Applied Materials Inc, has been appointed as the company’s new president and chief executive officer. Until recently Haim was vice president at Applied Materials in Israel. Before joining Applied Materials, Shani held senior management positions at Orbotech Ltd. From 1995-1998. From 1992-1993, Shani served as president of Optrotech Europe, based out of Brussels, where he co-managed the merger between Optrotech and Orbot Europe. Previously, between 1982-1992, Shani served in management positions at Scitex Corporation Ltd and IBM Israel.
2) Lauri A. Hanover, was appointed as the company’s new senior vice president and chief financial officer. Before joining Sapiens in 1997, Hanover served for 13 years in various capacities at Scitex Israel, most recently as corporate controller. From 1982-1984, she was a senior financial analyst at Philip Morris Companies, Inc (NYSE: MO).
NICE Systems (NASDAQ: NICE) www.nice.com headquartered in Ra’anana, Israel, is a worldwide leader of multimedia digital recording solutions, applications and related professional services for business interaction management. NICE products and solutions are used in contact centers, trading floors, air traffic control (ATC) sites, CCTV security installations and Government markets.

As you recall, we have reported that Scitex had invested in the Rehovot, Israel based company Objet Geometries Ltd. (www.objet.co.il) and it currently holds 19% of the company’s shares. Objet designs and sells 3D solid-modeling device based on proprietary inkjet technology, connected to CAD front-end systems.
Not un-expectedly one of our ExScite member David Ofek ofek@village.uunet.be, has been appointed the company’s CEO. David was the Australian business manager of Scitex and later came back to Israel to become the director of corporate marketing. A couple of years after he was promoted to corporate VP of marketing, he was appointed STE’s president. He left Scitex after the merger with Creo.
In addition, Dror Danai drord@objet.co.il has been appointed director of international business development of Objet in Rehovot. Dror was marketing manager at the CTP group in Scitex Israel, and later moved to STE as the director of indirect channels.

Arie Levin (alevin@avx.co.il) one of the members of the original group that founde

d Scientific Technology in Rehovot, which later became Scitex and moved to Herzlia, is the Managing Director of the Jerusalem based AVX Israel www.avx.co.il (Subsidiary of Kyocera). The company is a manufacturer of microelectronic components: Microelectronic Thin Film components; RF Filters; RF Inductors; RF Capacitors; and SMD Micro-Fuses. They telecommunications, satellite navigation, & instrumentation markets

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Gira Bitan

Giora Bitan gbitan@giza.co.il is the managing director of Giza Ventures (www.giza.co.il) a venture capital group of Tel Aviv, Israel, managing $250M fund . Giora had a 14 years career at Scitex, first at STA and later as CFO and Executive VP of Scitex Corp. Giora is a member of the Board of Directors of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.

Simon Lewis (simonl@.intent-soft.com) has recently joined Intent (www.intent-soft.com) as Vice President Marketing & Business Development Intent is an Israeli software company founded in 1999 in Herzlia. The company is developing its UniAgent, a software product for call centers, which will be introduced to the market by Q4 2000. Simon joined Intent from Karat Digital Press where he was a member of the founding management team and served as VP Marketing & Sales. He has nine years in Israeli high tech.