Gossip – Page 20

Yoav [Chalfon] Wechsler

Yoav
[Chalfon] Wechsler is the VP R&D at
Corrigent.
Yoav has more than 22 years of experience in the telecommunications industry.
Formerly, he served as research and development director at One Path Networks,
Prior to his experience with One Path Networks, Yoav served as department
manager at ADC Teledata, where he managed the Next Generation DLC project (IAN).
Prior to ADC Teledata, he was department manager at Scitex Corporation from 1983
– 1997, where he managed the TelePress product line and all the other LAN & MAN
activities in Scitex.
The products of the Israeli based Corrigent

AVT_bunch

What a nice bunch- Sure enough, the Israeli company AVT sports 4 ExScite
executives:

Shlomo Amir
is President and CEO (top picture). Shlomo joined AVT in 1997. Before joining
AVT, he served for two years as vice president of marketing and sales at Nice
Systems Ltd., an Israel-based international high-tech company in the area of
digital voice logging. Previously, Slomo worked for 12 years at Scitex
Corporation, and in his last nine years with Scitex he was based in its European
subsidiary in Brussels, serving in various marketing, sales and management
positions.
Koby Shtaierman,
is Executive V.P. Corporate Sales & Marketing (second picture). Prior to joining
AVT in 1999, he was vice president of marketing at Technomatix, a multinational
company headquartered in Israel that develops computer-aided production
engineering software tools for the automotive and aerospace industries as well
as heavy industries worldwide. Previously Koby served at Scitex for 10
years in various positions, including as R&D project manager and later as
director of marketing for Scitex?s input systems division.
Kobi Olin is V.P. Business Development (third picture). Prior to joining
AVT in 2004, he was an Investment Manager with Orbotech Technology Ventures,
Orbotech’s Corporate Venture Fund. Alongside his work at the corporate VC, Kobi
was an active member of Orbotech’s Corporate Business Development Team. In his
previous position, he was a Founding Partner and a Managing Director at Sphere
Capital Markets. He also served as a Futures & Options Floor Trader for Harel
Securities at the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange, and prior to that as a research
assistant at the Tel Aviv University and held R&D positions at Scitex
Corporation.
Gal Shamri
is VP Marketing (bottom picture). He joined AVT in 99 and prior to his current
position he served as Marketing & Business Development Manager and later as
Corporate Marketing Manager. Prior to AVT he worked at Scitex Corporation
for 6 years in the Input division and served in various positions including
Application Specialist and Product line Manager.
Advanced Vision Technology Ltd. (AVT, Prime
Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, ISIN: IL0010837248), is a provider of
automatic optical inspection and quality assurance solutions for the printing,
packaging. The company is located in Hod Hasharon, Israel.

Rudolph&Moran

The
ExScites Stuart
Rudolph and
Gideon Moran

Bill_Wilt

Since its founding in 1989, Bill Wilt is the President of Wilt Enterprises, Inc.

Eli_Luria

Grand Image, Inc.

Meir_Levi

Meir Levi is the president of Shoreline Commercial Real Estate.
He started his career as an Electronics technician at Scientific Technology, that later on became Scitex. He moved on in the early 70’s and while getting his engineering degree he worked part time at Amdahl Corporation in Sunnyvale, CA on mainframe computers. Then he moved on to Intel Corporation (1977 – 1981) as Test Engineer and later in a newly formed group called, Technical Support for the 8088 & 8086 Microprocessors. In the 80’s he worked in a start up company working on IBM PC Based CAD / CAM product. In 1983 Meir switched to commercial real estate business.
Since 1996 Meir owns Shoreline Commercial Real Estate, Inc. Shoreline is a real estate consulting firm, located in Saratoga California. They provide consulting services to commercial and private clients in the area of real estate for hi-tech companies.
Meir is also a member of the Angel Investment Group called Silicon Ventures, located in the Silicon Valley. This group mainly invests in Israeli startups, both in the Silicon Valley and in Israel.

Shmuel_Halevi

The ExScite Shmuel Halevi has co-founded a bio-chip company.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has extended a patent for a high-sensitivity label-free chip that Biotell, a Brookline MA

Genoa_color_gang

Genoa Color is another startup company populated by ExScite?s.
In the picture from top down are:

Simon Lewis – VP Marketing & Business Development. Simon was with Scitex, with Karat Digital Press as VP Marketing and Sales and with Ingeneo.
Dan Eliav – VP Professional Products and Founder, Dan has held various positions with Scitex and Shira Computers.
Ilan Ben-David – CEO and Founder. Ilan was at Scitex, CTO of Karat Digital Press and Optrotech.
Dr. Moshe Ben-Chorin – Chief Scientist and Founder. Moshe was Principal Physicist at Karat Digital Press.
Karat was (and no longer is) a joint venture between Scitex and the German press company KBA.

Genoa Color Technologies develops technologies to significantly enhance image quality and the viewing experience for a wide range of displays in the consumer and professional markets. The company licenses these technologies to major electronics companies for integration into their product lines. Genoa, with R&D based in Herzlia, Israel, is a venture-backed company supported by VCs and private investors.

Avi_Parush

Avi Parush PhD is Associate Professor at the department of Psychology at the Canadian Carleton University.
Before turning to his academic career in Canada, Avi owned the consulting practice HIT Human Interface Technologies (Israel 90-00), was the Group Manager at Scitex Human Factors Engineering Group (Israel 92-94), Human Factors Engineering Consultant at the Israeli army (Israel 87-90) and Human Factors Engineer at Israel Aircraft Industries Human Factors Engineering Department (Israel 84-87).

Jorge_Gerber

The new Sweetspot Consulting has been founded and is led by the ExcScite Jorge Gerber.
Most recently Jorge was VP Marketing and Sales at GoNet Channels. Before GoNet he was a member of the founding team of Radware Ltd. (Nasdaq: RDWR), an Internet traffic management company, where he was VP Strategic Alliances. Prior to that, Jorge held a position of Market Development Manager, Mediterranean and Africa for Madge Networks (Nasdaq: MADGF). In addition, he was the Purchasing Manager for Nice Systems (Nasdaq: NICE). Jorge held for 8 years purchasing management positions at Scitex in Israel.
Sweetspot Consulting of Tel Aviv Israel offers a structured, modular procedure to examine and determine the company’s “Sweet Spot”, laying down all the building blocks needed in order to accomplish goals in a timely manner.
They analyze customer capabilities, potential target markets, and the competitive environment. Sweetspot’s team includes industry-leading experts in product management, Marcom, sales, branding, positioning, business development, channel marketing, product deployment, sales force management, training, valuation, and technical writing.