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Oren_Modai

The ExScite Oren Modai is VP Business Development Rhodium, a private equity investment company in Israel.
Between 2005 and 2007 Oren was the general manager of ImPact, a business unit of the telecom software company Comverse.  From ’03-’05 he was VP Europe at Identify Software. Before that he was Director of EMEA at Mercury Interactive.
Oren’s stint at Scitex was during the heydays of the company’s attempt to develop into the telecom business. At Scitex he was Director of Telecom between 1993 – 1998 (5 years).

Michaela_Yakov

The ExScite Michaela Yakov is the Director Business Development at the Israeli company Alvarion.
Before Alvarion Michaela was Director, European R&D Grants at Sunrise Projects Ltd. and Product Marketing Manager at Amdocs.
She was Business Development Manager at CREO IL and Sales Director Cash-U Mobile Technologies.
For 4 year (’95-’99) Michaela was Marketing Manager & Application Engineer at Scitex in Herzlia.

With more than 3 million units deployed in 150 countries, Alvarion (NASDAQ: ALVR  www.alvarion.com) is a provider of WiMAX and wireless broadband network solutions, designed to enable Personal Broadband to improve lifestyles and productivity with portable and mobile data, VoIP, video and other services.

XMPie’s CEO, the ExScite Jacob Aizikowitz on Cross-media Marketing White Paper.
Click  here to access the video interview on the WhatTheyThink website.

Aizikowitz

Jacob Aizikowitz, PhD, is an expert in digital printing, personalization, and computing for graphic arts. As founder of XMPie, Jacob has led the company in various roles from inception in July, 2000 to its becoming the leader in software solutions for variable data publishing and its acquisition by Xerox Corporation in November, 2006. Prior to XMPie, he was Senior Corporate Director, Systems Technologies at Scitex, where he headed R&D projects that resulted in highly innovative digital printing products. Prior to joining Scitex, Jacob was with IBM Haifa Research Lab, leading its Application, Solutions, and Services group. Jacob was part of the founding team of Electronics For Imaging (NASDAQ: EFII) where he served initially as Director R&D and later as VP Engineering.

Hana_Benshabat

Hana Ben-Shabat, ex Marketing Director at Scitex Europe, has been transferred recently from London to New York, still working for the management consulting firm A.T. Kearney.
During her  10 years in London Hana specialized in consulting Retail and Consumer Goods companies and became Partner of the firm two years ago.

In NY she will continue her role as Partner in the firm’s retail and consumer goods practice advising on Corporate Strategy, Organization and Operations Improvement.

A.T. Kearney is a global strategic management consulting firm known for helping clients gain lasting results through a unique combination of strategic insight and collaborative working style. The firm was established in 1926 to provide management advice concerning issues on the CEO’s agenda. Today, we serve the largest global clients in all major industries. A.T. Kearney’s offices are located in major business centers in 34 countries with 2500 employees.

The ExScite Shlomo Birman is the Chief Marketing Officer at CallUp.
Shlomo Birman has more than 20 years of experience in technology development and marketing in the fields of Image processing, Internet and Mobile services. Before joining CallUp, he was the CEO of Vimatix Inc. he managed the Graphic Arts product line at RealTimeImage Ltd., managed the R&D department of Shira Computers Ltd. For over 10 years, from 1985 to 1994 Shlomo led several development projects at Scitex Corporation in Herzlia.
CallUp Net Ltd. is a d private company which develops and markets advanced messaging solutions for wireless network and fixed line carriers, integrating both telephony and Internet systems.
CallUp Net’s designs and develops cost effective solutions and offers the CallUp Net MessageCase system, an efficient suite of value-added services that provide customers with a complete set of financial, technical and marketing advantages, including Call Completion Suite, Unified Messaging, SMSC, MMSC, PRBT and CRBT.
CallUp Net is part of the One1 Software Group, one of the largest software groups in Israel.

The ExScite David Kantor, a Computer Engineer and Product Marketing Professional has until recently been product marketing manager and prior to that he was application development engineer at Applied Materials in Israel.
From 2003-2004 he was product engineering intern at Intel. Between the years 1997-1999 David was IT systems admin & support Scitex corporation Ltd. in Herzlia.

The former STA ExScite Ralph Amann is Technical Solutions Consultant Newspapers at Eastman Kodak in the Portland, Oregon Area.
Ralph was training & applications specialist for Scitex Europe in Brussels and Munich from 92 – 96. From 96 – 97 he was part of Heidelberger Druck’s Direct Imaging group. In 98 Ralph moved to the US to Portland, Oregon. Since 2003 he am back with the company – now Kodak. Ralph also worked in the trade and was producer at print projects manager at a couple of companies.

Yossi_Sufrin

Yossi Sufrin is the Production System Group Director at Xerox in Israel.
From 2000-2004 Yossi was in Leaf Europe and from 1993-2000 he was Sales Director Middle East & Africa at Creo.
The Xerox Production Systems Group caters to three main production environments – Publishing, Transaction Printing, and Enterprise-wide Printing through its multiple product categories. The group also offers total document solutions and services that can scan, view, manage and produce documents as well as a variety of pre-press and post press workflow options to fully meet customer demands. The group markets its product portfolio through both direct and indirect model.

[The exScite] Bill Wilt to congress? You bet …
Click here to see Bill’s blog at http://www.wilt4congress.com/

Bill_Wilt

Campaign web log for Bill Wilt, running for U.S. Representative for the 7th C.D., Mass. Retired, on Social Security, Wilt was a journalist in newspapers and TV broadcasting. He was drafted and served in Vietnam, and earned advanced degrees in journalism and law after he returned from Vietnam. He is seeking office to restore the Constitutional balance between We, the People, and our rogue government.

Bill Wilt

“I’ve been in the newspaper and television news business for better part of two-score years; about two years in government as information guy for NYS consumer protection agency (had a down-state office on the 81st floor of WTC #2); self-employed for a decade before retirement. Four children, and now two grandsons (the youngest arrived on April 26, 2008) “

David_Guterzon

Since 2004, David Guterzon is the CEO and co-owner of the Israeli software house Target Systems Ltd (http://www.target.co.il). Target is developing applications (mostly for the Internet) and also serving other organizations as an Outsource. The company?s 15 developers are working from home (Software house with no ?house?). Target is specialized in various internet aspects, including developing Internet portals and websites based on DotNetNuke www.dotnetnuke.com, one of today?s leading platforms for CMS (Content Management System). Target also specializes in Search Engine Optimization (SEO). One of the initiatives that Target is involved in is www.webstockpro.com – a virtual photo image shopping site (heavily based on SEO techniques) for selling rights to use photos for graphic designers.
Following the closing of Nessicom Ltd, the start-up that David co-founded in 2000 (in which he was VP R&D) he converted the technologies, and the customers to Target, and is developing Internet Cellular application. Users of the Israeli car wash Shtifomat http://www.shtifomat.co.il/ have been using their systems http://www.cellpr.com/. Before Nessicom, David had spent 17 years at Scitex.
For years, since 2001 Target is working with mentally ill people. For this activity Target won the ?OT Globes? award in 2003   http://www.target.co.il/globes.htm.