We are pleased to announce that Haim Duek  has accepted a new role in the Consumables and Service sales department with HP Scitex NA. Haim will leverage his vast experience in Graphic Arts and track record of helping scale new businesses. He will initially focus on developing and creating programs to continue generating growth.
Haim joined Indigo in 1995 after years of experience with Scitex and has held a number of key positions in the NA and world wide team. Until 2005, he managed the Indigo supplies business when it had very few customers and very low volumes and helped build the initial infrastructure and processes to scale the business.  Over the last two years, he has focused on the WW pricing programs and developed the financial tools for sales and customers. The Commercial and Label Job Estimator is currently used by HP Scitex customers and sales people.(October 2007, HP Scitex announcement)

The ExScite/ExIris Cyndy Hunter is currently the Director of Marketing at Agion Technologies.
Cyndy has an extensive marketing management background, including at: Hunter Marketing (’00-’07), Director of Marketing at Polaroid (’97-’00), Business Line Manager at IRIS Graphics (1990-1997) and Strategic Planner at NEC (’84-90).
Agion Technologies, located in Wakefield, Massachusetts, is a provider of customized, natural antimicrobial solutions based on silver that continuously inhibit the growth of bacteria, mold and fungus. Agion?s antimicrobial technology is used in consumer, industrial and healthcare industries and has been incorporated into a variety of products including cell phones, shoes, keyboards, pens, water filters, air conditioning and heating units, medical catheters, ice machines and faucet handles. Since the company?s founding in 1997, Agion Technologies has led the market for naturally safe antimicrobial solutions with support from private equity funds and strategic partners.

Not all the Israeli technology companies exist just in order to sell themselves to a foreign giant and make a quick buck. AVT under the consistent excellent leadership of the ExScite

Shlomo Amir

is doing it the old fashion way- they earn it.
The Ramat Hasharon, Israel based Advanced Vision Technology (AVT), Ltd., a leader in automatic inspection solutions for printing applications, is pleased to announce the planned acquisition of Graphic Microsystems, Inc. (GMI), from Dover Diversified, Inc., which is a subsidiary of Dover Corporation, for $33 million in cash. GMI is a leading manufacturer of pressroom automation equipment.
Commenting on the acquisition, Shlomo Amir, President and CEO of Advanced Vision Technology said: “AVT has been enjoying double digit growth for the last five years. H1 2007 net income was $ 3.5 million on revenue of $15.9 million – and market conditions coupled with healthy cash reserves meant the time was right to seek out a suitable acquisition target.”
AVT develops and manufactures automatic inspection solutions for printing applications, mainly in the packaging & labels sectors. As of today, more than 1,600 PrintVision platforms are installed worldwide. AVT is a public company listed in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. AVT’s headquarters and manufacturing facility is located in Hod Hasharon, Israel, with marketing, sales and support offices in the United States, Europe and China.
See comlete press release here.

The ExScite (ex-Iris) Cyndy Hunter is the Director of Marketing at Agion Technologies since March 2007. Between 2000 and 2007 Cindy managed her own Hunter Marketing a Sole Proprietorship providing Strategic and tactical marketing services to B2B and B2C clients. Before that she was Director of Marketing at Polaroid for 3 years. From 1990-1994 Cindy was application and marketing and business line manager at Iris Graphics in Bedford Mass. Prior to Iris she was Strategic Planner at NEC for 6 years.
Founded in 1997, Agion Technologies Wakefield, MA provides safe, natural antimicrobial solutions based on silver, “Nature’s Antimicrobial.” The company is dedicated to developing consumer- and environmentally-friendly solutions for antimicrobial protection.

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The ExScite Edo Ganot joined Discretix in 2003. He is currently EVP Sales & Business Development, and holds direct responsibility for global sales and business development activities.
Prior to joining Discretix, Edo was EVP, Strategic Alliances & Marketing for Trivnet, a provider of e /m-Payment platforms for the wireless market and earlier the Worldwide Marketing Manager, Business Management Solutions for Scitex Corp. in Herzlia. Before that, he held Sales Management positions at ART Inc., a provider of voice and handwriting recognition solutions for the embedded wireless market.
Click here EPN, 23/07/2007 to see an interview with Edo at EPN- Interview of the Week, in which he highlights what his company can bring to the mobile industry for content protection.
The private Israeli company Discretix is a provider of embedded security technology for mobile devices and flash memory storage. Discretix technology, which incorporates both hardware and software components, enables security to be incorporated into products at the chipset level, making it transparent to the end-user while protecting sensitive information from malicious attacks, viruses, fraud, and theft. Discretix? solutions are deployed in a wide array of devices and mobile systems to enhance security, reliability, and user experience.