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Paspartoo-(www.paspartoo.com)-an Israeli Internet start-up company founded in 1999, Paspartoo’s European headquarters are based in Brussels, Belgium. The vision of Paspartoo is to enlarge the print market by bringing it to a new audience. Paspartoo enables consumer designs to be realized in quality color print.Paspartoo has launched the first products at Drupa 2000. The company founders and top managers are of course our ExScitex friends:
David Amir – davida@paspartoo.com Founder and Chief Executive Officer
David Amir founded the company following a 15 year distinguished career at Scitex Corp in the fields of R&D, marketing and operations. At Scitex he most recently served as corporate Vice President at Scitex Headquarters. In that role Amir was substantially involved in creating and leading new business activities within Scitex. Previously he has held the position of Vice President Operations, Scitex Europe. Early in his career at Scitex Amir was involved in new product development as well as marketing positions both in the USA and in Europe.
Amir Kleinstern – Vice President R&D
Before joining Paspartoo, Amir Kleinstern worked at various positions in R&D and marketing at Scitex Corporation. His last assignments included heading the development of a Distributed Network Printing system for major newspapers and publications. Prior to that, he was marketing manager for Scitex Input devices in North America.
Benoit Cornet – bointc@paspartoo.com Director of Marketing
Mr. Cornet was marketing manager of services for Scitex Europe and prior to that served as manager, business intelligence at Proctor and Gamble, Europe.
Daniel Van Kerckhove – Director of Operations
At Scitex Daniel has held several technical and managerial positions, including Regional Customer Support Manager for Benelux. Before joining Paspartoo Daniel Van Kerckhove was involved at leading large scale IT implementation processes at Scitex customers.

CreoScitex acquired Carmel Graphics Systems in a $8.5 million combined cash and stock transaction. The company’s CEO and founder is the ExScite Dov Berliner

On June 6, 2000 Creo Products announced its acquisition of Carmel Graphics Systems in a $8.5 million combined cash and stock transaction. Cannel Graphics Systems is a desktop publishing, pre-press, and print-on-demand software development company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The terms of the acquisition call for six Carmel Graphics employees, including the management team, to transfer to Creos’ CreoScitex graphic arts division. Creo will integrate Cannel Graphics View-IT and Submit-IT technology into the Prinergy InSight browser-based proofing and job tracking tool distributed by its CreoScitex division. View-IT is an Internet-based client/server portal providing remote collaboration and observation of jobs plus support for remote proofing and approval of jobs. Submit-IT allows users to send and receive files over the Internet with job tickets, dockets, and other forms of appended information. It also tracks and logs all transactions.

Remon Medical

Hezi Himelfarb (hezi@remon-medical.co.il) is the CEO of the Start up Remon- Medical Technologies Ltd located in Ceserea, Israel www.remon-medical.co.il . The company is a medical devices company, developing technology that enables non-invasive exchange of energy and data to and from the human body, including telemetry technology, applicable for many medical applications, such as disease management, monitoring and therapeutic applications. Prior to Remon Medical, Hezi was at the Scitex Israel Operations.

Arie Rosenfeld and Ilan Neugarten have teamed together to establish a new venture fund- DOR Ventures located in Herzlia, Israel. The Ventures is will focus on promising startup companies in the rapidly growing area of new age publishing. The Fund will identify investment opportunities in companies, primarily in Europe, the U.S. and Israel, that develop, market and sell technologies, products and services relating to the creation, storage, management, delivery and exchange of content over computer networks as well as digital printing and other imaging-related areas.
Arie Rosenfeld (lenox@glo.be), served for seven years as the Scitex CEO. He has subsequently acted as an investor and director in a number of successful high tech companies including, among others, XAAR plc, a London Stock Exchange traded company, Supercom Ltd., an EASDAQ traded company, and Tecnomatix Technologies Ltd., a Nasdaq company. In addition he was a member of the board of Creo until mid-99.

In May 1999, a group of ExScite veterans (Ex-STCL) met in Tel Aviv to talk about the good old times. Dani Zetland put his new digital camera into a good use…… In the picture below, standing from the left: Lili Kosberg (lkosberg@allstate.com), Ilan Olesker (ilano@netvision.net.il), Dani Zetland (zetland@netvision.net.il), Uzi Ish-Hurowitz (uziish@netvision.net.il) Sitting from the left: Bracha Rawnsley (steve_r@netvision.net.il), Diana Shem-Tov, Galit Felix

Beni Fish

Beni Fish beni.fish@ecitele.com has recently left Eldor and moved to join ECI Telecom in Israel.
Beni is an Ex STA as Eastern Regional Manager, EX STE as UK Customer Support Manager and EX STCL as director of ICS. All in all he spent 18 years with Scitex. At Eldor Computers he has worked for Wili Ioushoua (an ExScite himself).

Dror_Haroush

Dror Haroush, (dror@noosh.com) is the Director of Customer Support & Training at Noosh.
Noosh Inc. (www.noosh.com), a young, Palo Alto, CA based company, is an Internet service that connects between people who buy, sell and manage print. It focuses on bringing buyer and seller together, collecting a fee when the job is paid for, but otherwise stays out of the business relationship. Before joining Noosh, Dror was the manager of Quality Assurance and International Customer Support & Training in the Print On Demand division of Scitex.

Many people join ExScite, but some people decide to leave us (that is: to rejoin Scitex). Hanan Drory (HDrory@compuserve.com) , a veteran Scitex warier is re-joining Scitex Asia-Pacific (his third time around). He has informed us that he had made a decision (hopefully a good one …) to leave DGS Israel (Purup-Eskofot) and relocate to Scitex Asia Pacific in Singapore. Hanan will be holding the position of “Regional Sales Director” responsible for Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and India. So, when in Singapore, do not hesitate and give him a call. Hanan was one of the first employees at Scitex and was both at STCL, STJ and STAP. He had left the Scitex in the 70’s to complete his masters degree in Australia, and came back to rejoin the company.He will remain an honorary ExScite member, having made the trip to hell and back several times…….

Mike Tomono

Mike Tomono mtomono@ms.tokyo.jcom.ne.jp has started an International Strategic Consulting business in Tokyo- Tomono Corp. Ltd. The company’s consulting services are directed towards high technology companies, foreign companies looking for doing business in Japan and Japanese companies interested in doing business abroad. The company’s web site is at URL: http://www.tokyo.jcom.ne.jp/~mtomono/
Tomono had a long career at IBM Japan, holding a number of executive management positions in sales, marketing, finance, manufacturing, and business development.
From 1993 to 1996, he was President & CEO of Nihon Scitex Ltd. (STN). Under his leadership, the annual revenues of Nihon Scitex doubled and became profitable company. Until recently, he was COO of the Tokyo based Novatec Corp. where he created and managed the graphics product sales and services division – which became a full-fledged organization producing a margin within the company.

Reuven Anati (Email: nyanati@wis.weizmann.ac.il ) is the head of the recently dedicated Everett Technology Workshop at the world-famous Weizman Institute in Rehovot, Israel.

He designed and supervised the building of a garden of wonders, located at the Clore Garden of Science at the Institute.

The exhibits at this unique museum are designed to stimulate a child’s wonder about the world while communicating scientific principles. Each exhibit demonstrates a natural phenomenon. The exhibits are hands-on for the young (and young at heart), most of whom are arriving on field trips from all over Israel. The Clore Garden of Science has become a popular tourist destination.

Prior to his career at the Institute, he was one of the first of employees at Scientific Technology in Rehovot (that later on has become Scitex in Herzlia). Reuven was one of the chief mechanical designer. He designed many of the first mechanical products of the company.

Anati received the Weizman Institute President’s Prize, the highest honor conferred on an employee of the Institute. He was also recipient of the nation’s Kaplan Prize, awarded by former President of Israel Zalman Shazar. The prestigious award is bestowed on inventors for patent applications. Anati’s patent, developed while at Scitex, is for a unique scanner that reproduces patterns on cotton jersey knit.