On one beautiful morning in America, Alex Gall, Roni Even and Ilan Fono from Scitex Israel R&D, have been observed around the IBM PC division. They came to explore the (then) brand new PS/2 computer. The rest is history.
Only Roni has gone through the trouble of buttoning his jacket for the photo session.
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Packed and ready to go
The Package Engineering Department gearing up for Drupa 1992
(submitted by Yossi Kamir)
Dan Eylon dan_e@netvision.net.il is VP R&D at Appstreamin in Tel Aviv. Dan was with Nova Measuring Instruments (NASDAQ:NVMI) and also spent 6 years at Scitex R&D. He is the author of 6 software patents.
Located in Tel Aviv and in Palo Alto CA, AppStream Inc. www.appstream.com is a provider of scalable technology for the deployment and management of applications to the extended enterprise. Appstream lowers application TCO while optimizing existing infrastructure to providing cost-effective way to distribute any application over any network to any device. The technology reduces network congestion and server load and provide ubiquitous access to applications across all networks without impacting other applications or IT infrastructure.
In 1988 all the world-wide top-dogs of Scitex management assembled in Herzlia for a strategic planning session under the theme “HAPPINNES IS POSITIVE CASHFLOW”.
It is not so surprizing to note that except for one (!) person (guess who?), all of the people present are no longer with the company.
In 1998, Boaz Frenkel bfrenkel@netvision.net.il
A Scitex poster/organization chart from (who knows) maybe 1984-5?
The big deal in the middle here is the CIPC workstation the pre-cursor of the Pixet, which was later upgraded to the Imager.
Lets see how many of these characters you can identify.
Rami Mittelman mittelman@barak-online.net is VP Product Marketing at Verint in Tel Aviv. Rami was with Scitex Herzlia R&D. Other ExScite members
Bruce Harrison bharrison@jetplate.com is the founder and CEO of PISCES – Print Imaging Sciences. Bruce was the president of the Scitex division Iris Graphics of Bedford MA in the late 90?s. Before Iris he was the president of Optronics.
The compay?s Chief Scientist is also an ExScite (in fact Ex- Iris)- Dr. David West dwest@jetplate.com .
PISCES -Print Imaging Sciences Inc. www.jetplate.com is a Nashua, New Hampshire based company whose primary mission is the development of innovative ink jet systems for the printing and publishing industry. Founded in 1998 by a group of industry veterans,. The company has developed the first in a series of products, the JetPlate: a computer ?to- conventional platesetter based on Epson’s Stylus Color 3000. The printer has been modified to precisely handle metal printing plates and uses a proprietary fluid that ‘exposes’ the UV sensitive emulsion on a conventional plate.
The Israeli telecom equipment maker ECI Telecom http://www.ecitele.com named Giora Bitan as executive VP and CFO, effective August 1, 2002. Giora will report to ECI’s CEO overseeing ECI’s non-core business units and will be in charge of ECI’s finance, operations, logistics and administration.
For over 14 years, until 1996, Giora giora.bitan@ecitele.com served in senior management positions at Scitex, both in Israel and in the USA. Nine of those years as Executive Corporate VP and CFO. During the past five years he was a general partner at Giza Venture Capital, a leading Israeli venture capital firm, where he focused on investments in the communications and software sectors.
ECI Telecom (NASDAQ:ECIL) is a provider of advanced, telecommunications solutions. Focused mainly on the metropolitan optical and access markets, ECI enables service providers and carriers world-wide to maximize their capital investment and reduce operating expenses while providing voice, data, video and multimedia services to their customers.