Amnon Neubach (ExScite in the 80’s) – managing director of the Israeli Stock Exchange

Amnon Neubach (ExScite in the 80’s) has been appointed managing director of the Israeli Stock Exchange.

In the middle of the 80′s during the existential crisis at Scitex, he was brought in for a short period, as a corporate VP finance and helped in the cost cutting and the turn around of the company.

Over the last several years Amnon served as chairman and director for quite a few public and industrial companies in Israel. He was also the economic attaché in the Israeli embassy in Washington. Prior to working at Scitex he was economic consultant to the (then) prime minister Shimon Peres.

This is an article in Hebrew from the Israeli economic paper Globes (March 20, 2014):
http://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1000926146#fromelement=hp_firstarticle

לבורסה בתל אביב יש יו”ר חדש, לאחר כשמונה חודשים ללא יו”ר. דירקטוריון הבורסה אישר היום (ה’) את המלצת ועדת האיתור ומינה את אמנון נויבך לתפקיד יו”ר הדירקטוריון. בעוד שבבורסה ציפו לכ-200 מועמדים, בפועל רקכ-40 איש טרחו להגיש מועמדות.

בשנים האחרונות מכהן נויבך כדירקטור ויו”ר דירקטוריון של חברות ציבוריות וחברות תעשייתיות ביניהן ביטוח ישיר, לאומיקארד, דלתא, בזק, פלאפון ועוד. נויבך שימש חמש שנים כציר כלכלי בוושינגטון, והיה אחראי להשגת הערבויות לקליטת עולי ברית המועצות. כמו כן כיהן כיועצו הכלכלי של ראש הממשלה פרס בשנות השמונים, והיה שותף לביצוע תכנית הייצוב הכלכלי. לפני כן היה סגן הממונה על התקציבים באוצר, ושימש בתפקידים נוספים באגף התקציבים. אמנון נויבך חבר בהנהלת לשכת המסחר ישראל – אמריקה.

נויבך מסר כי הוא “משוכנע כי בכוחות משותפים נתמודד עם האתגרים העומדים בפני שוק ההון בעת זו, ונוביל את הבורסה לעידן חדש”.

עו”ד ברכה ליטבק, יו”ר הועדה, אמרה כי “מר נויבך מביא לתפקיד ניסיון עשיר ומגוון בניהול עסקי, בסקטור הציבורי והעסקי, כדירקטור וכיו”ר דירקטוריונים. הוא בעל ראיית מקרו רחבה וניסיון בהובלת שינויים משמעותיים בארגונים מורכבים. יש לו הכרות עמוקה עם העולם הפיננסי ועם ארגונים בארץ ובעולם. אני משוכנעת כי מר נויבך יזכה לתמיכה ולשיתוף פעולה מלא של הדירקטוריון, של השחקנים בשוק, ושל הרגולטורים, ויפעל יד ביד עם מנכ”ל הבורסה, הנהלתה וצוות עובדיה על מנת להוביל את הבורסה לתהליך של צמיחה והתחדשות”.

יו”ר רשות ניירות ערך, שמואל האוזר, מסר כי הוא “מודה לוועדת האיתור על עבודתה המצוינת והיסודית בתהליך בחירת יו”ר לבורסה. ניסיונו העשיר של אמנון במגזר הציבורי כמו גם במגזר העסקי וכיו”ר לשעבר של חברות גדולות, יסייע לו להוביל את הבורסה יחד עם מנכ”ל הבורסה, מר יוסי ביינהרט, וחברי הדירקטוריון, אל שיאים חדשים ולהביאה למקום הראוי לה בזירה הבינלאומית והמקומית כמחוללת צמיחה במשק וכאחד מעמודי התווך המרכזיים של התעשייה בישראל”.

עוד הוסיף האוזר כי “התקופה הקרובה מעמידה בפני הבורסה אתגרים גדולים, ואני משוכנע כי ההנהגה החדשה, בהובלת היו”ר והמנכ”ל הנבחרים, יצעידו את הבורסה ואת שוק ההון לעידן חדש”.

Scodix adds more Exscite’s

Scodix has recently added more ExScite’s to its top management in Israel and in the USA.

Lance Shumaker has been appointed to Head Up Scodix North American Operations.He will report to another ExScite member Dror Danai, Executive Vice President, Global Sales and Business Development. Lance has held executive management positions with Scitex and Indigo, and more recently Advanced Vision Technology (AVT).

Amit Svartz joins Scodix as VP marketing management. In his previous position, Amit was the VP Marketing of Extricom, a privately held firm specializing in enterprise wireless LAN. Prior to Extricom he was VP Marketing at Objet Geometrics (2005-2010), and held several positions over a 10-year period beginning in 1995 with industry trailblazers Scitex and Creo.

Dennis Kercher Joined Scodix as sales manager,Western United States and Western Canada. Previously he was Account Manager at Domino Amjet, Western Region. Prior to Domino Amjet, he held several sales positions at both Creo and Kodak over a 16 year period.

Scodix Ltd. provides digital print enhancements for the graphic arts industry. Through the Scodix S Series, Scodix Ultra™ and Scodix Rainbow™ Station, they offer the breakthrough Scodix SENSE™ experience in America, Europe, Middle-East, Asia and Africa. The company’s aim is to lead print enhancement into the digital age and to be known for its passion and commitment to providing what our customers need the most – true brand differentiation for today’s highly competitive printing environment.

Scodix bunch 2014

Miki Nagler, VP at Landa Nano

Miki_Nagler 2013

The ExScite Miki Nagler is VP Advanced Technologies, at Landa Labs

Miki brings to Landa over 30 years of executive experience in the printing industry at leading companies including fulfilling the positions of Senior VP at Scitex (now Kodak) and President & CEO of Aprion Digital (now HP). In recent years he served as CEO of two medical device companies. Miki has a proven track record of taking technologies through the full cycle, from conception to sales. He holds an MSc degree in physics from the Weizmann Institute, a PhD in optics and electro-optics from the university of Arizona and is also a graduate of the Senior Executives’ business course at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. Miki is the author or co-author of over 30 patents and patent applications.

Landa Labs, under the leadership of Beny Landa (Indigo’s founder) is a new digital printing category. Nanography employs water-based Landa NanoInk™ Colorants and a unique image transfer system that together achieve unprecedented results. Landa sheetfed and web Nanographic Printing™ presses offer the versatility of digital printing combined with the qualities and speed of offset. They print on any off-the-shelf coated and uncoated stocks and packaging films. Nanography is expected to significantly impact the industry and ignite a second digital revolution in print. See more at http://www.landanano.com/

Reuven Sherwin- VP R&D at WIX

ReuvenSherwin2013The ExScite Reuven Sherwin has over 15 years of experience in senior Product Management and R&D management positions within the tech sector  joined Wix in January 2013. He has been involved with Wix from the get-go, having served as a member of its Advisory Board as well as being the Organizational and Operational Adviser to the Wix founders since 2008. Great timing Reuven- Wix has just completed its IPO on NASDAQ [ticker WIX].
Prior joining to Wix, Reuven was the Co-Founder and VP of Products and R&D of XMPie, a company he co-founded in July 2000 which was sold to Xerox at the end of 2006. XMPie as we all recall, was originated as a group within Scitex and was span off in 2000.
The Israeli company WIX (www.wix.com) provides a powerful technology that makes it simple for everyone to go online with a beautiful, professional and functional web presence. Their web building platform is the only drag n’ drop website building platform with HTML5 capabilities, 100s of designer made templates, top grade hosting, and innovative Apps. No creative limits, no coding – just complete freedom to express yourself and manage your entire business online. The company claim to have 42 million users in 190 countries!

Haim Shani

Haim Shani

The ExScite Haim Shani recently retired from his position as Director General of Israel’s Ministry of Finance, the highest non-political economic post in the government. He led key business related legislation and committees for two and a half years. Mr Shani has been in the High Tech industry for 28 years. He has lived and managed businesses in Israel, the US, Asia and Europe at IBM, Scitex, Orbotech and Applied Materials.
Haim was the CEO of NICE (NASDAQ: NICE) for eight years. He grew the company’s revenue to over $600M (a factor of 6X) through operational changes and strategic diversification. The company’s market cap grew from $100M to $2.5B during his tenure. He also managed and grew global businesses in Enterprise Software, Telecom, Semiconductor, HLS and the Printing industries.

Mr. Shani is presently the Chairman of the UK-Israel High Tech Hub sponsored by the UK government and the private sector with the objective to increase cooperation between the UK and Israel technical communities and economies.

Mr. Shani has a BSc in Industrial and Management Engineering from Tchnion, as well as an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. In 2008, Mr. Shani was selected as D&B top 10 CEOs in the country. In 2006 he was selected as Top High Tech CEO in the large corporations category my the MIL

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Greeting to my Scitex family (from Varouj)

Varoujean&daughterI was checking the update on the site and enjoyed all the news. Thank you for posting my family pictures. The men and women of Scitex that I worked with were the people that made the biggest impact on my professional life. Despise the fact that I had no formal education and had left school after the 10th grade to help support my parents I was given the many breaks by the leaders of Scitex America Europe and Israel to excel and perform that which many born with a silver spoon could not. There is not one person that I can think of within Scitex family that did not help, teach, support and push me through the amazing achievements Scitex achieved. I will always be proud of these people and have learned to do the same thing to others by giving them the chance to. Excel and achieve good things in life.

As an Armenian I have always identified with the struggles of our people and have be proud to have been associated with the Israeli friend during my journey of life. I am glad and feel wonderful that I made those 50+ trips to Israel. I am glad I took my wife and children to Israel more then five times to let them learn and see for themselves about the people of the Scitex company that gave me their father the chance to make something of himself. I am forever indexed to all those that I was in contact with, worked  with and shared bread with during my 22 years of being with Scitex of which 15 was working for Scitex.

You see when one hits 67 they start to get sentimental.

Etan Rozin thank you for the wonderful job you are doing keeping us all alive. You are a Rae specimen. I could only wish to be like you.

I got my cap and T-shirt (that I bought here) and I am proud wearing it.
Thanks.
All you my Wonderful Israeli friends have a great day.

Fond regards

Varouj

Joel Stern- the ExScite, ExChina

During Joel’s career, he has become an expert in management of Production and QA in the fields of electronics, medical devices and digital printers. His expertise includes coordinating a variety of subcontractors in Israel and abroad.
Over the last two years in China, as Deputy General Manager and the only Westerner in an electronics manufacturing concern, Joel learned to work successfully with Chinese top management and subordinates.

From 2009 to 2010 Joel worked at Nanjing Zijin-Lead Electronics Co. Ltd. is the manufacturing and the Far East distribution partner of Solido3D in Israel, which develops, manufactures and markets 3D printers worldwide.
He relocated to Nanjing, China, to supervise the establishment and monitoring of good manufacturing and good quality practices in this joint-venture for the manufacturing of 3D printers.

Joel spent 19 years at Scitex holding a variety of positions- Service engineer in Charlotte and Milan and quality assurance manager in Herzlia. Among the positions he has held after Scitex were quality assurance role at Nur, Solid Dimensions and Solido3D.

The Exscite David Solomon -Capital Investment Banking

The Exscite David Solomon (Scitex/Israel Director of Economic Department ’85-’90) owns Solomon Capital Investment Banking (http://www.solomon-capital.com/#!firm/c1n8o ).

David is an accomplished author and one of Israel’s leading experts in the field of High-Tech/Biotech business Planning and Firm Valuation. He has successfully worked with dozens of emerging companies and is accredited with over a hundred winning business plans.
David has worked with high profile clients in the global market such as IBM, Scitex, Bezeq, Bank Discount, Bank Hapoalim, Bank Leumi, Israel Aircraft Industries [IAI], QUALCOMM, Dor Energy.
He has formerly been the Director of Scitex’s Economic Department, The founder and the CEO of 4HIGHTECH [Investment Bank], and Micromedic technologies [Listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange]. Mr. Solomon lectures in Courses in academic and other institutes.
David is the author of various books including: “From Seed to IPO”, “Business Planning in the Post Bubble Era”, ”Biomedical – from Research to Market, The Business Challenge”. See here his recent newspaper article (in Hebrew)- “ How to get access to European equity capital during crisis time”

Scitex Spirit Is Alive

 

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Illustration: Succari

Earlier in June, a few hundreds ExScite’s got together in Savion (east of Tel Aviv) for a great evening- a trip down memory lane. The letter below in Hebrew, titled “what a fantastic evening”, was sent from Gita Tamari to the organizing committee after the event.
We will later post here additional stories and pictures from the event, as they become available.

 

     איזה ערב יפה, איזה ערב נפלא!!

     להחזיר ולהחיות ולו לשעות ספורות את ימי העבר של סאיטקס.

     זה אושר גדול לראות שזרע החברות והאחווה לא רק נבט, אלא

     השריש והעמיק את הקשר בין העובדים הצעירים שהיינו אז –

     למתבגרים, לפנסיונרים ולקשישים שאנחנו היום. ברוח נשארנו

     צעירים לנצח.

     ההוכחה לכך, היא המפגש אמש. אמנם התגים שענדנו עזרו, אך

     לו רק לרגע. כי מיד הדמות של העבר ניצחה את הפנים של ההווה,

     וזכרונות מימים עברו, הפכו לחווית הווה.

     זה היה לי יום חג. ערב מאושר ושמח, להפגש. להתחבק ולאהוב

     דרך ההווה את הימים ההם.

     אהבתי כל שעה וכל יום בעבודתי בחברה. אהבתי את העובדים

     ורחשתי לכולם את הכבוד והערכה. ימי סאיטקס לגבי זה גחלים

     לוחשות, שבכל פגישה עם חברים ניצתים באש של שמחה ואושר

     מחדש.

     אשרי שזכיתי לעבוד 22 שנים מחיי במקום שהפך עבורי לבית שני,

     מחבק, מעריך ואוהד. אושרי רב עם חברים רבים וטובים כמוכם.

     מקווה שזה לא היה מפגש חד פעמי ונזכה כולנו למפגשים נוספים.

    לעוזי – מבטיחה שאם תגרור אותי שנית למבצע וותיקים, אבוא

    בשמחה. תבורך על היוזמה שהיתה וגם על זו שתבוא.

                                                       שלכם חברה לתמיד

                                                       גיתה תמרי

         7.6.13

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