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Reuven Treep “in” Response 200

Treep with R-200

In this picture (circa 1976) Reuven Treep assisting in setting-up the Scitex Europe office in Brussels. The demo centre initially included the textile system Response 200 which used the old Scitex logo.
The old blue logo symbolized a single knitted fabric stitch loop. As you can see in the background, the Scitex logo was hyphenated as SCI-TEX, short for Scientific Technology or Textiles.
In 1978 Scitex decided to modernize the logo and changed the color in red.
The picture was sent to us by Reuven, who was one of the first application engineers at Scitex and was about 10 years with the company. He now lives in Holland.

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EFI Opens State-Of-The-Art Research and Development Design Center in Israel under the leadership of the ExScite Eli Shalev .

EFI (NASDAQ:EFII), has announced the opening of their premier inkjet research and development design center in Hod hasharon Israel.
The Israeli site was selected to take full advantage of the high quality talent concentration of inkjet engineering talent within the local population. This leading edge technology center will be committed to attracting and retaining the best and brightest the industry has to offer.
“Our new location provides us with an excellent professional, easily accessible research and development environment to better meet the diverse needs of our global customer base,” said Guy Gecht, Chief Executive Officer of EFI. “We are focused on delivering a consistent flow of inkjet product innovations for the superwide, label, packaging and industrial print markets.”
“We are pleased to open our new R & D facility and are currently assembling the finest team of professionals serving the graphic arts industry. With this capable team of engineers and project managers under one roof, we enhance our ability break through existing barriers in the development of inkjet technology,” explained Ghilad Dziesietnik, Chief Technology Officer of EFI, an ExScite himself.
Eli Shalev has joined EFI as General Manager and will be responsible for managing the new center.
Eli’s background includes numerous years serving as the General Manager of Scitex product divisions, developing multidisciplinary machines for the prepress industry. Later in his distinguished career, he served as a Vice President of R & D and Chief Operating Officer for Nur Macroprinters, developing and building wide format ink jet printers.

“His successful career, numerous accomplishments and continued commitment to the success of our customers will truly be as asset to EFI and our new industry-leading center,” adds Mr. Gecht.

The new facility’s charter will be to develop and validate the performance of new technologies, modules and best-in class printers. The R & D site will incorporate state-of-the-art technologies and encompass office space as well as research laboratories.
The new site will maintain continuous expansion and management of numerous projects started within 2007, increasing throughout 2008.

See complete EFI press release here

Scitex road trip in the Negev

This wild ride picture was taken in Spring 1993. This is one of the un paved roads leading to the lowest place on earth- the Dead Sea in the Judea Desert in Israel. It was shot and sent to us by the ExScite Bob Rosenbaum.

Click to enlarge the picture. You may recognize yourself of your friends, when you were young and daring.

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The ExScite Yoav Wechsler is VP of Engineering at Atrica.
With over 24 years of R&D management experience Yoav leads the Engineering organization at Atrica Inc. Yoav comes to Atrica from Corrigent Systems where he held the position of VP Research and Development for five years. He has also held senior level R&D positions at One Path Networks, ADC Teledata Telecommunications and 14 years at Scitex R&D in Herzlia, working in various communication related projects.
Atrica of Herzlia, Israel provides a full range of Carrier Ethernet transport solutions to service providers delivering Metro Ethernet services. Atrica’s Carrier Ethernet product suite combines the benefits of Ethernet technology – including its low-cost, proven scalability, ease of management, and ubiquity in the enterprise market – with innovations in traffic engineering, service management and scalability to meet the stringent demands of next-generation transport networks.

Scientific Technology (Scitex)- first scanner 1972

Thirty five years ago Scitex introduced its first scanner. In fact, the device was a combination of laser scanner and recorder built into one unit. This 1972 product had been delivered to a Boston based company and then worked for year to come on scanning, digital enhancing and finally recording satellite black & white photograph for the American intelligence.
This was one of the first high resolution rotary scanner/recorder of its kind in the world. The core was a 5mW red HeNe laser that could scan both film and reflective prints on the input side; and record on Polaroid instant 4×5” positive or negative on the output side.
The system also included: HP 1000 computer (with 4KB RAM board), the software was written in Assembler, Magnetic tape to store image data (no disc) and Teletype keyboard/printer. That’s it.
If you want to see how the scanner looks from the inside, click on the picture above.
The images were Emailed to us by Yacov Laor, who had worked on the project.
You too, are invited to send us historically significant images like that

Itzik_Weinstein

The ExScite Itzik Weinstein assumed the position of President & CEO et Ectel in May 2007 after serving as EVP Professional Services and Operations from 2004. His experience includes positions as Vice President, Customer Services & Product Management at VocalTec, Engineering Site Manager at NetManage, Software Engineering Manager of KLA-Tencor Corporation’s optical metrology division, as well as software engineering and project management positions at Scitex Corporation, Electronics Images Technology and Intel Corporation.

Rosh Ha’ayin Israel based ECtel (NASDAQ: ECTX) is a provider of Integrated Revenue Management (IRM) solutions for communications service providers. ECtel offers carrier-grade solutions that enable wireline, wireless, converged and next-generation operators to fully manage their revenue and cost processes. ECtel serves tier one operators, and has more than 100 implementations in over 50 countries worldwide.

STE openning the Dusseldorf service office in 1983

The ExScite Jacob Rothschild sent us this 24 years old STE-related nostalgic picture:
“ In the upper corrner you see Arie Rosenfeld with the Israeli ambassador to Belgium Mr. Hadas at the opening of the European logistic center in Brussels, I am [Jacob]at the back.
The lower photo is from the opening of the Dusseldorf service office in 1983. At the center you see Dr. Dan Nicolas, our famous and aggressive sale person for Germany. On the left of Dan is myself shaking hands with one of our European customers. On my left is Avi Rabi service manager for Germany”.

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Congratulations to our ExScite friend Hezi Himelfarb, Remon Medical Technologies’s CEO.
(21 Jun 07) Caesarea-based Remon Medical Technologies, developer of intra and inter-body wireless communication for early warning systems of heart failure, is expected to sign a final agreement for its sale to medical devices giant Boston Scientific.
www.remonmedical.com develops and commercializes smart, miniature implants which enable physicians to assess and treat a variety of medical conditions in a non-invasive manner. The company’s technology utilizes wireless communications to exchange energy and data with minute devices placed deep inside the body.
The company will receive an initial payment of $80 million, with later payments from agreed upon milestones and royalties, which are expected to reach $300 million.
The parties declined to comment on the report, and the future of the Israeli company and its dozens of employees remains unclear.
Remon Medical had already raised $40-50 million from various other funds including Ofer Hi Tech Ltd., Biomedical, US fund Polaris Venture Partners, and others.
Remon, which was founded in 1997, developed a method for increasing the effectiveness of ultra-sound transmission by three orders of magnitude, meaning 1000 times.

STE training center, Zaventem, Belgium

The ExScite Gian Paolo Bertelli has sent us this from Ferrara, Italy:

“This is a picture of one of the first training for Dolev 100. Here we are in Nosseghem near the Brussels airport, the first training center of Scitex in Europe. The instructor was Ammon Frank and the engineers in training were (from left to right)-
Standing: Gian Paolo Bertelli, Alexander Kleinman
Sitting: Amnon Frnak, Peter S., Gilad Liser.
I am still at Scitex Europe since 1988 as one of the first employees in Italy”.
Click on the image to see details.

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Nathan R. Yakobovitch has been promoted to VP Global Strategic Purchasing at Nice. Nathan joined Scitex Israel in May 1985 as a student. Over the years he served in different positions in Material Management and Purchasing and left Scitex after 11 years. Nathan joined NICE (he was brought in by Roni

Nathan R. Yakobovitch

Zomber, another Ex Scitex) as Purchasing Manager, later became Director of Global Purchasing, and now promoted to be Vice President of Global Strategic Purchasing.
NICE Systems (NASDAQ: NICE) is a provider of Interactions solutions and value-added services, powered by advanced analytics of unstructured multimedia content ? from telephony, web, radio and video communications. NICE?s solutions address the needs of the enterprise and security markets, enabling organizations to operate in an insightful and proactive manner, and take immediate action to improve business and operational performance and ensure safety and security. Headquatered in Raanana Israel, NICE has over 24,000 customers in 100 countries, including over 85 of the Fortune 100 companies.

Nice has a nice contingent of ExScite?s– no wonder it is a successful company. We have the following members registered in our ExScite members? list. PleaseEmail usif you know of any changes, encourage ExScite?s who are not on the list to register and current members to update themselves.
Anat Shem-Or, Avron Moss, Carmela Avner (Marcovici), Francoise NALE-WISLITSKI, Haim Shani, Ronit Barr, Ronit Kahana Goodman, Sasi Yehezkel, Shlomo Shamir, shmuel yohay, Zvi Wrobel