Haim Benjamini has always been one of the more interesting characters starring in Shmulik Succary‘s cartoons.
You can now see a nice selection of historical Scitex-related cartoons at Shmulik’s new web site at: www.arteshock.co.il/
–Click on the cartoon on the right ==> to see the “real” Haim.
–Click here to see the full cartoon of the [1985] corporate management.
The privately held software company iKnowledge Inc., of Lexington,
This picture was taken in the middle 80’s and was included in the Scitex Annual Report.
In the picture is Yaakov Aizikowitz tinkering with a circuit, linked to HP1000 computer. Today Jacob is the CEO of the Scitex-backed startup XMPie in Natanya, Israel.
Richard Klapholz is the VP Customer Support at Orbotech USA. Richard held various marketing positions at Scitex is Israel and in Brussels before joining Orbotech in Israel.
Orbotech
It is with great sorrow that we notify of the untimely death of Eyal Yechezkel in a car accident in the Czech Republic on Tuesday, November 26th.
Eyal worked for Scitex and then Creo-Scitex/Creo from 1984 until September of this year. He began his career at Scitex in 1984 as a student and subsequently held various managerial positions in materials management, sales administration and the electronic assembly plant. In 1992 he moved to Scitex Europe as Director of Sales Administration. In 1997 he was appointed to VP Operations for Scitex Asia Pacific in Hong Kong and in May 2000 assumed the position of Managing Director of CreoScitex Asia Pacific. In the summer of 2002 Eyal and his family returned to live in Israel. He is survived by his wife Aviva and 3 children.
The funeral will take place tomorrow – Friday November 29, 2002 at 10:30 am in the Neveh Hadar cemetery in Hod HaSharon. Condolence visits at his house: Rechov Ha’Levi’im 18, Hod HaSharon, Israel.
Eyal’s family is now preparing a memorial book which will include memories, personal stories and special thoughts from friends, family and colleagues. If you’d like to contribute, please send messages to: eva.gez@creo.com .
Scitex Corporation Earnings Conference Call (Q3 2002) Mon, Nov 18, 2002,
Listen to the archived event audio
Scitex’s revenues for the third quarter of 2002 were $57.7 million, a decrease of 13% from $66.6 million in Q3 of 2001. Net loss for the quarter was $0.8 million.
If you are REALLY interested, you may listen to the Creo’s fiscal-Q4/2002 call by clicking here.
Scitex’s revenues for the third quarter of 2002 were $57.7 million, a decrease of 13% from $66.6 million in the third quarter of 2001. Operating income was $2.1 million (before amortization of intangibles of $0.8 million), compared to $3 million in the third quarter of 2001 (before amortization of intangibles of $3.1 million). Net loss for the quarter was $0.8 million, compared to a loss of $41.4 million in the third quarter of 2001. Geographically, the Americas contributed 38% of the revenues followed by Europe with 36% of revenues, and the Far East (including Japan) trailed with 23% of revenues.
To read more click: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/021117/lnsu003_1.html
Many of the ExScite friends in Israel will remember the famous or infamous Scitex newsletter Micha Kidron used to write. Here is something he wrote in honor of Efi. Unfortunately it cannot be translated to English since it’s a poem with rhymes. Those that read Hebrew: enjoy!
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Material was supplied by Eva Duvdevani.
Homi Shamir, Scitex Digital Printing president and Eli Lubitch VP Biz Development, have been seen smiling all over at a recent party around the Xplor show in California. The ESPN Zone party has been sponsored by SDP.
After five intensive and successful years as President of Orbotech in Brussels Belgium, Chanoch Biran will return to Israel and be appointed to the position of Corporate Vice President of Business Development & Marketing at the company’s HQ in Yavne. Chanoch managed Orbotech’s European subsidiary during years of extensive growth, in which our traditional business in the PCB Inspection industry was booming and, in parallel diversified into the Component Assembly Inspection market. The ExScite Chanoch (Ex-STCL, STE, Leaf, STA) will be returning with his ExScite wife Mandy Biran-Meyer (Ex-STCL) and their two children.
Orbotech Ltd. (NASDAQ/NM SYMBOL: ORBK) designs, develops, manufactures, markets and services production support solutions for the supply chain of the electronics industry, principally for printed circuit boards (PCBs) and flat panel displays (FPDs). The Company provides automated optical inspection (AOI) systems for bare PCBs and for FPDs, and in imaging solutions for PCB production, and for AOI systems for assembled PCBs. Orbotech headquarters and primary R&D and manufacturing facilities are in Israel, and more than 30 offices worldwide.
Eli Bitan is General Manager and VP R&D at Send2Post. Send2Post mission is to be the leading global infrastructure provider for customized on-demand print-and-delivery services for corporations. Corporate marketing collateral and documents can be personalized, printed and mailed directly from any web browser Individual brochures or entire direct mail campaigns prepared in minutes, printed in brilliant color, and mailed directly to recipients.
Before Send2Post Eli had a distinguished career at Scitex Corporation where he most recently served as R&D Director for the company’s Digital Printing Division. He was also the lead R&D Software Manager for the software team developing desktop applications for the Macintosh.