Ronit Konfidian was the photo model during the preparation of an article about the Leaf R&D group in Israel in 1999. Click on the picture to see a leaf Volare “contact sheet” image on a Mac screen.
These days, Ronit is marketing manager at (Scitex) Kodak in Herzlia.
The complete article was published in a British Photo magazin in 1999:
The man behind every Leaf camera to date is Yossi Ben-shoshan. In 1992 he moved from Scitex America to their new acquisition, Leaf Systems Inc. There he was responsible for the Leaf DCB (Digital Camera Back), first shown at Photokina in 1992.
In 1996 he took the Leaf subsidiary home to Israel, to take advantage of in-house manufacturing facilities and the synergy between Leaf and the Input Systems Division in digital imaging acquisition and color processing. Yossi Ben-shoshan is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts in professional camera design. He is also a perfectionist.
Alon Ziv of CreoPOD has Emailed us this photo. It was taken in 1997 at Kibutz Sdot-Yam (on the Israeli beach) during the yearly fun-filled gathering of the IMS group (information and marketing services).
From right to left:
Sitting- Emil Menashe, Mor Sade Shamir, Julia Geva, Orit mooki ,Yael Sher
Standing- Gili Oren Horen, Tamara, Alon Ziv, Natasha, Michal Zweig, Iness Erlich, Yaron Naor.
CreoPOD has little to do with CREO- this is the old SCITEX DFE group in Herzlia, now operating under the Kodak name.
This great picture and story was submitted by Aron Blume:
“For the past 16 months, ever since the 2004 layoffs in the USA, a steadfast group of ex-Scitex (and Creo) alums have been gathering for monthly get-togethers in Waltham Massachusetts (near Boston). The group meets at one of the restaurants on Moody Street, have a few drinks at the Bah, and sit down for dinner and good times.
Our last dinner was one of our most successful, with 21 people attending.
Click on the picture to see details (courtesy of Zvi Jalfin) :
(from left to right) Andrew Showstead, Meir Yehezkel, Craig Kevghas, Jonathan Agger, Donna Berger, Jeannie Rizzo, Jay Bergeron, Jim Buzinski, Bill Tupper, Lynn Voytershark, Anne Abbey, Cathy Rogers, Dana Fokos, Aron Blume, Lev Knopov, Jeff Rosenbaum, Zvi Jalfin, Bill Gillooly, Pat Mijos, Mike Kinnucane and Hugo Flores.
If any of you happen to be in the Boston metropolitan area, we meet on the first Tuesday of every month at 6:30pm – so please join us. You’ll be more than welcome.
Contact Mike Kinnucane (mikekinnucane@charter.net ) or Aron Blume (aronblume@yahoo.com ) for more details.”
The ExScite Yacov Pluda is the co-founder of M-Photo, an Israeli company located at a technology incubator in Kiryat-Gat.
The tiny M-Photo has attracted the attention of the staff of the Israeli Labor party politician Amir Peretz (sitting, left), who stopped by to pose for the cameras, hoping to “Hi-tech his own image”.
Peretz is the Labor Party candidate for the prime-minister job in the coming elections in Israel.
The picture was Emailed to us by Pluda himself (standing on the right).
Click on the picture to see Peretz looking at M-Photo’s computer screen.
PS. According to recent polls, Peretz has no chance of winning the majority of the votes, in spite of the fact that he has met with Yacov…
This group photo taken during the last Scitex America Sales & Marketing meeting at Scitex in Herzlia, Israel in 2000.
The picture was Emailed to us by Rick Harvey.
Michael Ross drives an Infinity G-35.
Being such an attractive looking ExScite, Mike has been chosen to star in Infinity’s ads. This ad has been published at the Wall Street Journal.
Mike lives in San Diego CA. He was the director of marketing of the Engineering Graphics group at Scitex in the 1980’s.
Drive safely Mike.
Nathan Yakovitch has Emailed us a 20 years old picture from 1986. You can see here two students (then) in the Electronic Plant in Herzlia, working hard on the Wire-Wrap machine. Standing on the right is Nathan Yakobovitch Director, Global Strategic Purchasing at NICE Systems in Israel and sitting on the left is David Litvak who is currently managing Sales and Marketing at Kodak (yes, still at “Scitex”?) and is located in Madrid, Spain.
This picture was taken at the Dead Sea in Southern Israel in the year 2000.
Scitex France has brought-in a group of clean customers for a business & pleasure trip at Scitex in Herzlia.
Look what happened to them- I have never seen a responsible company who brings-in customer and roll them in mud…
In fact, the Dead Sea, the lowest point on earth and the largest “Natural Spa” in the world, is one of the world’s true natural wonders and a unique tourism destination. No doubt those customer have had a fantastic experience.
As part of us publishing the creative works of art of our members at ExScite.net, we are featuring a San Diego based ExScite artist. Mike Ross art can be seen at: http://www.michaelsart.ws/page3.html . His work combines colorful contemporary creativity enhanced with computer graphics capabilities and is available as Giclee prints.
Mike partnered with his wife Erica to found Therability in San Diego CA.
He was the director of marketing for the Response-280 Engineering Graphics system at Scitex Herzlia in middle ‘80’s. In addition mike was CEO of Four-I, Inc., and director of marketing in General Electric and the Israeli Tecnomatix.
And what about your art? If you want to be posted here Email me at: content@exscite.net
