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Sasson_Shemesh

Sasson Shemesh, the former VP customer support at Creo and Scitex America in Boston and two of his colleagues have bought ITNH, a company which had been founded by another ExScite- Mike Pelletier.
Sasson has been working at Scitex for 15 years and two and half years for Creo.
Improved Technologies of Tilton, NH (ITNH) sells and supports IRIS digital imaging equipment, as well as inkjet printers from Mutoh, Mimaki, Gretag, X-rite and others. In addition, ITNH provides color management and networking software from ColorBurst, ColorByte, Creo, and Monaco. The company’s core business is outsourcing of services for technology companies.
Currently, ITNH sells wide format printers such as Mimaki and Ixia to the Fine Art and Textile markets. The company is transforming, focusing on providing services to color imaging system vendors and customers in the US.

STE- 1980

The picture of three customer support managers of Scitex in Europe was taken at the STE offices in Brussels in 1980.
Standing from the left: Jacob Rothchild, Shmulik Raz and Yigal Maharal. The picture was sent to us by Shmulik.

Varyframe_bunch

Another energetic ExScite-based startup!!! Varyframe of
Netanya was founded by 3 veterans of Scitex/Aprion earlier this year.

http://www.varyframe.com/contact.htm

to those imbecile bankers….

In the middle of the 1980?s, the days when Scitex was at one of its financial crisis, there was no love lost between Efi Arazi (then the CEO) and the bankers/owners of Scitex.
This wonderful caricature (click to see full screen) was created by the talented ExScite Shmulik Succary, who so elegantly captured the spirit of the times.
For those who do not read Hebrew, Efi is saying (a real quote, mind you?) ?..And God will pay [the loans back] to those imbecile bankers??

Lior_Maayan

Lior D. Ma’ayan, is the Chief Executive Officer of the medical instrumentation company Orsense.
Lior was formerly EVP Corporate development and Chief Operating Officer of Compugen (NASDAQ:CGEN) and served in several positions with Scitex corporation (currently NASDAQ:CREO), both in Israel and in Brussels, and lastly as a managing director of a division. Prior to Scitex, Lior served as a research officer in the IAF and is a graduate of the Israeli Army Talpiot Program.
OrSense, based in Rehovot, Israel, develops non-invasive monitors of blood analytes such as glucose, hemoglobin and cholesterol. OrSense’s technology has the ability to realize a continuous monitoring system that would allow diabetics to monitor their glucose levels without the need to draw blood – painlessly, safely and reliably. To date, OrSense has raised approximately $14 million in private and VC financing and in Government support from Israel’s Office of the Chief Scientist.

Nostalgia

This old picture was sent to us by Shmulik Raz Email: shmulik.raz@creo.com.
In the photo, from left: Eliezer Wexler , Shmulik Raz, Michael Ramazanov & Moshe Peer visiting a customer in Paris on April 1978.

Speculation over Scitex sale

Speculation over Scitex sale According to reports in the Israeli business press Scitex痴 holding company IDB has received an offer for the ink-jet printing specialist. A report in themarker.com claims that a non-Israeli investor is after Scitex Digital Printing (SDP), the firm痴 high-speed ink-jet over printer and press manufacturer.
Sources close to Scitex Digital Printing suggested that EFI or Xerox might be the firms making the offer. Both have a relationship with the firm, EFI to develop a front-end to drive its VersaMark digital colour press and Xerox to sell the VersaMark. No one from Scitex or IDB were available for comment.
There are changes at IDB that mean it is considering the options for Scitex, which has been singled out by IDB痴 recently appointed management as part of its cost-cutting measures. IDB holds almost 40% of Scitex痴 stock through its divisions Clal Industries & Investments and Discount Investment Corporation. Scitex・financial performance, particularly in its wide-format and ink-jet technology division Scitex Vision, has been poor.
SDP has been the group痴 cash cow. Write-downs on its holding in Creo have also been hitting its parent痴 profits, although Scitex recently sold half its remaining share of Creo leaving it with 6.6% of the pre-press giant. Scitex changed top management following the revamp at IDB. SDP president and chief executive Nachum Shamir now fills that role at Scitex as well having replaced Yeoshua Agassi last week. IDB staff have also taken up three positions on Scitex痴 board, including Discount Investment chief executive Ami Erel replacing former Clal chief executive Meir Shannie as chairman.

Shuki_Sheinman

Dr. Shuki Sheinman is the founder and CTO of the Scitex held inkjet company Jemtex.
In a career spanning over 20 years, Shuki has developed advanced systems and managed R&D and engineering teams for leading hi-tech enterprises and organizations, including NASA, Scitex Israel, Cubital and El-Op.
Jemtex of Lod, Israel was founded in 1995, with the purpose of applying an innovative digital printing technology to industrial printing. Scitex owns 50% of its shares.
The company has developed a proprietary Continuous Inkjet (CIJ) technology

STA customer support team, circa 1970’s

On a warm summer day, 25 years after working together as a team, this group of ExScite application and service engineers met in Herzlia Israel.
The middle of the 70?s was the period when Scitex was the king of the computerized imaging for textile design. This group provided application and hardware support to the first customers in America.
You may recognize those faces (they hardly changed, have they?) sitting from the left: Eli Israeli , Hanan Gilutz , Micha Michaeli , Miri [Bik] Weiss , Aharon Nizani .

Stephen_Blackstock

Stephen Blackstock is the President of Mosaic Imaging.
Before joining Mosaic Stephen spent 5 years with Scitex America.
Located in Stow MA, Mosaic Imaging, Inc is a manufacturer of digital one-shot instant color capture camera-backs. The Luma Professional Digital Camera Backs are equipped with up to 11 Megapixel Sensor. The Luma is distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Fuji Photo Film. Click here to see Image Gallery.