Dec 29, 2005—SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Scitex Corporation Ltd. after Thursday’s closing bell said shareholders approved today changing the company’s name to Scailex Corporation Ltd. The new company name will begin appearing in communications, and on its company’s new Web site. Scitex expects its shares to continue trading as “SCIX.”
David Saar is the CEO and co-founder of GED-i Ltd.
Most recently David was the CEO of Vsecure Technologies (US) Inc, a Network Security company. He previously was the founder and the General Manager of TSK Israel Ltd. – a subsidiary of TSK Inc. of Japan – a manufacturer of semiconductor manufacturing inspection systems. Previously he was the worldwide Marketing Director of the SDH Division of ECI Telecom.
For about 10 years David has held several product development positions at Scitex Israel, including R&D Manager of EIT, a Scitex spin-off.
GED-i Ltd of Netanya Israel offers protection to Storage Data, originally designed and implemented for the storage world, incorporating 3 layers of standard and proprietary. GED?s Solution is available as S/W, Board or Appliance version, complies to the customer needs and policy.
After 13 years at STE in various senior marketing and application positions (including VP Marketing) Chris Van Assche left Scitex in 1996 to join Barco in Belgium.
A couple of years later, leaving the graphic-arts market, Chris redirected his interest towards the banking world, in the field of strategic IT consulting. With a technology partner and venture capital, he created a company that developed concepts and provided support to banking software applications. Two years later, they sold the consulting business to an
Amsterdam based consulting company.
Chris Van Assche has recently created his own management company (Creative & Valuable Advantages) in Meise, Belgium, providing services to several international banks in the Benelux.
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
The ExScite Rami Gilboa has combined his two areas of great interest- food/cooking with open-terrain/Jeeps and published a great book.
“THE SALT OF THE EARTH- cooking outside with the best Israeli chefs” is a great looking book, with fantastic photography and mouth-watering recipes. The book (for now- published only in Hebrew) can be found at book stores but unfortunately can not be purchased online yet.
Rami has told us that making the book provided him with a lot of fun and personal satisfaction. Rami has been the photographer, the writer as well as the Jeep driver. For several months he took leading Israeli chefs and drove with them to the hills and deserts in Israel. He had arranged the location with wood fire for them and they cooked their masterpieces on the open fire.
Rami says: “it was great experience and fun (including my almost becoming “Journaliste Flambee”, when the oil caught fire, big time…)
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For our Hebrew readers:
Click here to see the books table of content.
Click here to see the recipe for Foyka.
You can see additional stories about Rami’s other crazy hobby by scrolling back the ExScite/Gossip to the 2001 postings of March 10 and Nov 25.
Erwin Busselot (ExScite/STE) has Emailed us this picture and description:
“The picture was taken during IPEX ’93 in Birmingham. Basically this was the Scitex Scanner team (click on the image for detailed view). From left to right: Amir Kleinstern, Oded Milstein, Shouki Garibi, Erwin Busselot, Filip Hasebeyt, Ziv Argov and of course Koby Shtaierman.
Personally I’ve some warm memories about this picture. All these people were among those involved with the launching of the Smart 340 line. This product was essential for Scitex in those days for penetrating what was then called the PostScript market (=Apple Macintosh world). It was also the first of many successful scanner products to follow. Furthermore, it shows a team that closely worked together over the geographic and cultural boundaries.
Now 12 years later I’m still in contact with some of the people in this picture.”
The ExScite Alon Avnon founded a business consulting in London UK.
Park Road Associates tag line is: “Management buy-in of printing & imaging businesses”. It was created to: Acquire a promising imaging business; Restructure the business to achieve its full potential; Manage it; and Exit when ready.
From 1997 to January 2001, he served as Managing Director of NUR Europe S.A and later as Nur’s corporate VP, business development. Before joining NUR, Alon served as VP Marketing at Scidel Ltd., where he established that company’s European office. Prior to that, he was Director of Marketing at Scitex Europe S.A., where he was responsible for developing the company’s presence in the photographic (Leaf and Iris) and offset printing industries.
We have recently found this 1974 (?) picture of the original Scitex Response system. The awesome computing power was developed to handle complex color designs for the textile industry, intended to drive fabric knitting machines.
From left to right: 1) Rack of Scitex-built electronics, 2) Rack containing HP mini computer and 20MB (!!!) disc inside, 3) Paper-tape reader/punch unit (table-top!!!), 4) next to it is a Color Separation Scanner, 5) Teletype (3-in-one!) keyboard, printer and paper-tape reader/punch, 6) CRT.
Sitting (on the left) behind the keyboard and fixing bugs is Rony Ross.
Hanan Drory one of the longest surviving ExScite at the ever-changing Scitex (Israel/ Australia/ Japan)/ Creo/ HP has been recently interviewed on the Israeli radio service.
We have picked the broadcast over the Internet .
To hear click here. (the audio will take a a few seconds to start- so stay tuned).
The ExScite – Aharon Korem, now working for HP division in Israel [what used to be called: ScitexVision], is devoting his free time to his [conventional and digital] arts.
Korem, known to his long time friends as Zinger, is a real Scitex veteran [27 years]. He is currently a Senior Fellow, dealing with out-of-the-box technologies and feasibility projects regarding inkjet. He started at Scitex when the company was still Scientific Technology (Technologya Madait) located at the Weizmann Insitute in Rehovot, working in the optical lab. He later moved and joined Aprion, the Scitex inkjet spin-off. Aprion was later forced to merge with ScitexVision, which was recently sold to HP. The company is located in Netanya, Israel.
Aharon defines himself as a painter and a sculptor using recycled materials. To view Aharon’s paintings, log into: http://www.pbase.com/aharonko/korem_art . Here you can see a sample of his original paintings, where some of them are digitally enhanced. 