Gossip

The ExScite Jeffry Gunter is VP, CIO at Citizens Bank of East Tennessee since 2005. He manages the overall IT operations for this community bank.
From 1999 to 2005 he was North American Technical Training Operations Manager at Scitex America (later called Creo) .
Prior to his Scitex days, Jeff was Corporate Prepress Director / Technology Director at Rhodes Printing Group (?96-?99) and Quality Assurance Manager / Prepress Technology Manager at  Morrison Printing (?89-?96).
He lives in the great state of Tennessee.

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Yea- we have found one for you. Gilat Ovadia who had spent 15 years at Scitex has been the Human Resources Manager at Methoda for the last 8 years.
From 1984 to 2000 Gilat was member of the (then-excellent) HR team at Scitex in Herzlia.
Gilat is also a proud member of the ExScite Group at LinkedIn.

Located in Ramat Gan, Methoda Computers, Ltd. is a privately-owned Israeli company specializing in quality management (QM) for the IT industry.
Thier flagship product MethodA is the leading methodology in Israel for project management, software engineering, systems analysis and quality management. It is a combination of an extensive IT knowledge base and working templates, designed to manage the array of IT activities in an organization, both on the project level and on the organization level.

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Haim Baruch is the International Finance Director at Electra Ltd in Copenhagen.
Prior to Electra, Baruch was CFO at Evalesco Systems ApS and before that Finance Director at
Bluephoenix Solutions ApS and Account Executive Saxo Bank. From 2000- 2002 he was V.P. Finance & Administration at Scitex Vision America Inc. and  betrween 1997- 2001 he was Director Finance & Administration Scitex Vision Ltd.(HP today).
Electra Ltd. is an Israel-based company, which is part of the Elco Group. The Company’s activities focus on real-estate development, investment in high yield properties, construction, electro-mechanical systems and infrastructure.

The ExScite Kevin Blayne is President / Chief Marketing Officer at MSC
Prior to MSC, from 2003 to 2005 Kevin was President of BWRE, LLC Managing personal investments in early stage companies.
Between 199 and 2003 he was Co founder and VP at Protocol Integrated Direct Marketing
Kevin was sales manager at Indigo America between 1993 and 1996 and before that he was Sales Executive & Marketing Manager in Scitex America managing various prepress product lines and creation of product pricing and positioning for alternative distribution channels, to include Latin America. Held direct-sales and account-management responsibilities.
MSC is a database marketing solutions company with over 20 years of experience, based in Woodland Hills just outside of Los Angeles. The company serves both B-to-C and B-to-B space; turning our clients’ data into actionable marketing knowledge through a wide range of services.

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The former STA, the ExScite Janine Simmons is currently a Workflow Sales Specialist at Agfa Graphics since January 2004. Prior to Agfa, Jenine was Technical Sales Specialist with Creo Americas Inc.
Between 1990 ? 1995 she was Manager on the National Demonstration Center and later Marketing Support Manager, at Scitex America Corp in Bedford Mass.

Agfa Graphics provides prepress solutions for the printing and publishing industries. Agfa Graphics provides commercial, newspaper and packaging printers with the most extensive range of workflow automation, project management, computer-to-film, computer-to-plate and proofing solutions. Agfa Graphics produces analog plates as well as thermal, visible light, and chemistry-free digital plates to offer advanced solutions for different printing applications.

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Gily Netzer is currently Senior Marketing Manager for the Mobile Security Solutions division at SanDisk (which acquired M-Systems).
Prior to SanDisk she was Marcom manager at Finjan Software, a leading provider of secure web gateway solutions for the enterprise market, between 2003 – 2006 and before that she was marketing manager at Promarket, the leading live marketing and sales promotions agency in Israel. For the previous 2.5 years Gily was marketing and business development manager at the Visual Intelligence & IT division in Elbit Systems.  Gily was new media team leader at Scitex in Herzlia between 1997 ? 2000.

The Kfar Saba based SanDisk is a giant, the world’s largest supplier of flash memory data storage card products. M-Systems has been transforming raw flash into smarter storage solutions since 1989. SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK – News) acquired M-Systems Ltd. in 2006, in an all stock transaction valued at approximately $1.5 billion.

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Printers? Service (Prisco) announced the appointment of the ExScite Steve Zunde as President – Prisco Digital Division. Steve will be responsible for driving the company?s strategy and operational execution into the digital arena.
A few weeks ago Steve underwent kidney-donation surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD whereby he was considered an altruistic donor and besides enabling my his wife Janice to receive a long-awaited kidney transplant, he also enabled 5 other people in a living donor transplant chain to receive a kidney transplant as well. A helicopter was on standby at Johns Hopkins to fly the kidney to North Carolina and Steve became the second person in the world to be a living donor whose kidney was ever flown out-of-state for a transplant.

Steve joins Prisco from Hewlett-Packard Company where he served as President of Scitex Vision Americas until the acquisition by HP, and then filled several business planning and strategic roles within HP?s Imaging & Printing Division. Prior to his role as President of Scitex Vision Americas, Steve held senior management positions within Scitex Corporation Ltd. where he served as the President of Karat Digital Press, a startup and joint-venture between Scitex and KBA, which was then fully acquired by KBA with Steve then serving as the President of KBA?s digital division in North America. Prior to this, he was the President of International Paper Company?s? global printing chemicals business which was then acquired by Fuji Photo Film of Tokyo.
Headquartered in Newark, NJ, Printers’ Service is a manufacturer and distributor of offset pressroom chemistry, coatings, blankets, supply items and process control equipment.

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The ExScite Guy Yehiav is the VP sales and strategy at Oracle Value Chain Solutions group.

Before Oracle lead Demantra’s Go-To-Market group. Prior to this role, Guy was Sr. Director of Product Management, where he led Product Management and Product Strategy. Guy also led the initial sales and marketing campaigns, winning Demantra?s first 5 customers and creating a new market. Prior to this position Guy served as Demantra?s Sr. Director of Global Prof Services, where he recruited nearly 50 people during his tenure, managed over 100 complex Supply Chain projects.
From 1994 to 1998, Guy served as a Product Manager & System Engineer for Scitex Corp, working closely with customers like Xerox

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The ExScite Steve Rothman is a Systems Administrator at the Peabody Museum at Harvard University in Cambridge Mass. since 2006.
Until 2004 Steve was application engineer at Scitex/Creo in Boston, were he handled a variety of projects for a software engineering team, mostly on Macintosh. Prior to his Scitex days (?91-?93), Steve was Release Engineering Group Leader at Varityper.
Founded in 1866, the Peabody Museum is one of the oldest museums in the world devoted to anthropology and houses one of the most comprehensive records of human cultural history in the Western Hemisphere.
Steve?s Website at the Peabody can be viewed here: http://www.peabody.harvard.edu

In a picture titled “Scitex Demise” Jonathan Meyshar created a black & white illustration, which covers the rise and fall of Scitex over a period of 30 years

Look at this fantastic image and tell us what historical details you can decipher in it.