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Exanet management- ExScite team

Yossi_BenShoshan

The Israeli startup Exanet (www.Exanet.com) has several ExScite’s (Ex-Scitex Israel) : Yossi Ben Shoshan yossi@exanet.com VP hardware development, Gil Pekelman gil@exanet.com VP sales and marketing, and the programmers Ofer Oshri ofer@exanet.com and Shaul Tamari saul@exanet.com.
Located in Herzlia, ExaNet with 45 employees, provides a next-generation, comprehensive storage system that revolutionizes how information-intensive companies store, manage, access and share their mission-critical data for both file and block services

Allison Druin- receives award

ExScite is proud to announce that Allison Druin (allisond@umiacs.umd.edu ) received the University of Maryland‘s Outstanding Faculty of the Year Award. She was nominated by her undergraduate students. 57 faculty were nominated this year and the award winner was selected by the Parents Association for Undergraduate Education. Allison is Assistant Professor at the U of MD college of education and was at STA/CSD as a product manager for almost 4 years in the early ’90s.

Moshe Waldman- Mahshava

Shlomo Waldmann shlomow@machshava.co.il is the active chairman of Machshava, the Or_Yehuda, Israel based company. Shlomo was 11 years with Scitex in Israel and held senior management positions, in manufacturing and operations.
Machshava Technologies Ltd www.machshava.co.il , an 18 months old software with 80 employees, is one of few startup companies that Shlomo is involved in, through his (Israeli) holding company Shadmon investments Ltd.

Dan Barel now at Comview

We have recently reported that Hanan Yossefi had joined the Israeli company Comview as CEO. Well we have also found out the there are other ExScite’s there too: Beth Orshalemy betho@comview-vs.com Marketing Information Manager who was with Scitex Israel for 20 (!) years and Dan Barel danib@comview-vs.com VP R&D who had joind the company 1 1/2 years ago, after 16 years with Scitex and later with Scidel, Israel. Comview Visual Systems (www.comview -vs.com ) provides software for multiple video projector systems setups

The ExScite team at iKnowledge

(In the picture from left to right: Dan, Stuart, Scott, Brad at a show in Las Vegas) Dan Trajman dtrajman@iknowledgeinc.com is CEO of iKnowledge. Prior to joining iKnowledge, Dani was the CEO of CTI Squared Inc. At CTI, he launched the company into the US market, developed brand name recognition, and secured its presence with initial deals. Together with Yacov Levi (an ExScite himself) he founded Levy Trajman Management Investment LLC (LTMI), a Lexington MA based investor at high-tech portfolio of companies. Prior to LTMI, he was VP Marketing and Business Development at Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products working with Yacov Levi (then, the CEO). Dani was Director of Product Management and Marketing at Scitex America in the late 80’s and early 90’s.
Other ExScite’s at iKnowledge are: Stuart Rudolph srudolph@iknowledgeinc.com , Scott Champau, Brad Pitt and Edi Feldman, efeldman@iknowledgeinc.com VP of technology services. Edi was 6 years with Scitex in Israel and 4 years at STA’s MIS.
iKNOWLEDGE, Inc. http://www.iknowledgeinc.com of Lexington MA, is a provider of integrated solution for the delivery of interactive web-based applications combining connectivity, management, creation and delivery into an integrated platform for the deployment of web applications.

Koenig & Bauer and Scitex abolish their joint venture, Karat Digital Press

Karat and Scitex entered into the venture in order to expand into digital printing, preprint control and computer to plate.

The venture is now closed. Scitex’s losses on Vio and Karat led it to post a net loss of $16 million Q4/2000, compared with a net profit of $12.8 million for Q4/1999.

Read the complete story at The Marker

VIO close operations

The joint venture with British Telecom will close July 31. There are around 700 core customers and 1,000 Internet-only customers. Vio employed 58 people. Who is next? Karat 74?

Vio Worldwide, the online file transport and workflow vendor backed by British Telecom and Scitex, will cease operations by the end of the third quarter. The news comes after Vio’s management failed to find a viable plan for a management buyout, which was being explored after Scitex announced it would end its investment in the struggling vendor nearly six weeks ago. In a statement, Vio said that despite significant cost cutting, the company had yet to achieve profitability and was unlikely to achieve profitability in the near future, even if the prices for its services were raised. Vio’s attempts to find additional funding failed. Customers have been informed of the shareholders’ intentions. Vio’s management team is helping customers transition to unnamed alternative services, probably by providing access to Vio’s server farms through a third-party organization. Core services will close June 30 and Internet-only services will close July 31. There are around 700 core customers and 1,000 Internet-only customers, primarily in the newspaper and publishing sectors. Vio employs 58 people worldwide.

ExScite web statistics- FYI

Interested in some statistics of a typical ExScite week? click here

Statistical story of a typical ExScite week (*)

		% of total
Total number of ExScite registered members	918	100% (As of Apr 1, 2001)
Number of unique visitors at ExScite in one week	474	52% of all members
Number of visit sessions in one week	746
Average visits per day	106
Visitor who view 2 or more pages per visit	415	45% of all members
Most hits come from AOL	182	24% of visitors
Average visitor session length	5 minutes
Most active visit day of the week	Monday
Most visits are in the afternoon between:	17:00-18:00 (Boston time)

(*) The information in the table covers a typical week’s statistics.

The week described in here is March 3-9, 2001.

Data was generated by WebTrends web monitoring.

The nice Eva Duvdevani, now at Nice

After a couple of years with NICE as Training Manager, and about one year with InterWise – the live eLearning company, Eva Duvdevani ( eva@backweb.com ) has now joined BackWeb Technologies in Ramat Gan http://www.backweb.com /as Senior Director of Education for Europe and Israel. Prior to Nice, Eva had spent 12 years at Scitex Israel.

ExScite’s @ Sybold conference in Boston 2001

The ExScite’s in the picture here have been spotted wandering about the ever-shrinking Seybold Conference and Show, Boston, April 2001. Do you recognize the faces (all Ex-STA and Ex-Iris)?