Gossip

Dror Mualem is VP sales, marketing and BD at Bordeaux digital since 2008.
Located in Yavne, Israel, Bordeaux Digital PrintInk is a manufacturer and distributor of premium digital inks and chemistry for the digital printing industry. The company develops, manufactures and markets quality inks for wide and super wide digital printers, pioneering HAP Free Organic Green Ink.
Before Bordeaux he was VP marketing at PowerMat and PixDro. Earlier he was marketing manager at Matan digital printers, Scitex Vision and Aprion.
Dror was product marketing manager at Scitex in Israel from 1999-2003. He came to Scitex from Eskofot/Israel.

In early 2010, the ExScite Kobi Stern traveled for two month in South America including: Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Peru. (See picture).
Over the recent two years Kobi has been working on completing his M.Sc in Biomedical Engineering. Currently he is working in Tel Aviv university as Research assistance/project engineer. The research subject is “Optimization of cut in velocity of straight bladed vertical wind turbines”.
Before going back to school, Kobi was the CEO of IntelliMedi. From ’04-’06 he was Head of Department Electronic Design Process Improvement at Elbit and from ’98 to ’03 he was VP Engineering Infrastructures at Orbotech.
Kobi’s career at Scitex spans 17 years. He was field support engineer, h/w design engineer, projects manager and director of engineering infrastructure.

The ExScite Moshe Carmi is the primary algorithms developer at PSik Solutions.
Carmi spent more than 12 year (1980 – 1992) at Scitex, Israel R&D. He was principle programmer and a project manager for the Scitex Work Stations- the Prisma platform. As we all remember so fondly, the comprehensive Prisma product line positioned Scitex as the undisputed world leader in the pre-press industry during the roaring 80’s.
After Scitex he was VP R&D at Polycom, Israel for 14 years. The company was a technology group that had been started by another ExScite- Gideon Rosenfeld, and was later sold to Polycom.

Located in Zur Yigal, Israel, PSik Solutions Ltd. was established in August 1995 by the ExScite- Udi Zohar. PSik specializes in developing solutions for OEMs and VAR’s in the digital color printing market, focusing on various aspects of color printing and raster image handling, based on our fast, large image viewer, named PViewer. Psik applies its knowledge from the graphic arts industry to other fields where handling of large images is essential.

Ron Roszkiewicz, Scitex 1987-1990, seems to have time on his hands these days and has begun channeling his inconsequential ramblings on a blog called Bunwrinkle.com. A couple stories tell about Scitex and Photoshop from the perspective of the early days of the Visionary project and Photoshop beta testing. Since the Scitex as we knew it is no more, this information has since been declassified from Top Secret to Who Cares but to those of us who remember. Anyway no one will lose their job over the barrels of used film experiments.
Check out “Photoshop Tales: The Silk Screening Episode”. Others are in the works.
Also published: “To Turn The Perfect Wooden Bowl, The Lifelong Quest of Bob Stocksdale” by Ron Roszkiewicz. Fox Chapel Publishing “Valuable for those who make or love crafts.” Library Journal (July 9, 2009).

Dorit Geifman

The ExScite Dorit Geifman  is “back to school”. Over the last couple of years Dorit is a Doctoral Candidate and Teaching Assistant at University of Haifa. Her PhD research addresses the perspective of traders’ behavior in online Information Markets, also known as Prediction Markets, and its effect on market price. Click here  to read Dorit’s “Blogging through PhD”.

Between 2004 and 2008 she was Director ICT at ISERD – Israel Europe R&D Directorate, the liaison office to the European R&D Framework Program.
From 1998 to 2004 she was IS Architect – Large Accounts at Amdocs Corp. and earlier Technical Director at Edunetics Ltd.
Dorit career at Scitex Israel spans almost 12 years until 1997, during which she served as a programmer going up the ladder through significant roles in key projects up to a position of project manager.
Click hereto see Dorit’s interesting personal blog.

Eli_Vronsky

The ExScite Eli Vronsky has more than 20 years of experience developing high performance, industrial printing systems for the graphics arts, electronics, and flat panel display industries. Eli was founder and CEO of PixDro Ltd, a pioneer in the development of inkjet systems for plastic electronics and display applications. Before PixDro, he was co-founder and VP of R&D of Aprion Digital, a world leader in industrial inkjet systems for large format graphic arts printing; Aprion Digital was ultimately acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2005 for $230M.
Eli began his career at Scitex Corporation, where he rose to the position of VP of R&D for Output Imaging Systems, with annual sales of $400M; today Scitex is a subsidiary of Kodak. Eli is also a former fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force. He holds more than 20 patents.

Kateeva? is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA, and is actively developing ground-breaking manufacturing equipment for the flat panel display industry. By leveraging both their proprietary printing technology, exclusively licensed from MIT, and their team of display and semiconductor manufacturing experts, Kateeva? is building equipment that will enable manufacturers to make displays that are thinner, brighter, lighter, more vivid, more power efficient, and most importantly, less expensive than what is possible today.

Yes, we even have ExScite members in South Africa!

Richard Coldman is the Nur Macroprint sales manager for MEA, working at: www.eurojetdigital.com.
Before Eurojetdigital Richard worked for Scitex-Vision in Herzaliyah and then in Belgium and later in Cape Town, South Africa between 2000 and 2005

David Guterzon the General Manager of the Israeli company Target Systems has sent us an interesting link to a new website.
Target Systems employees had initiated and recently launched a new website, dedicated to one of Israel’s iconic poets Nathan Alterman, marking 40 years since his death. David has asked to point the new site to ExScite members (the site is in Hebrew): Alterman Website.
David was a software development project manager at Scitex in Israel in the 80’s and 90’s and later worked as VP R&D at Nessicom.
Target Systems Ltd develops software and Internet applications, and provide software outsourcing services in Israel.

Laura Wamelink Haggarty (STA ExScite) has found her calling.

Pathfinders Farm is headed up by James and Laura. Nineteen years of marriage, two children, and many moves later we’re finally settled on our own farm. We focus primarily on horses and poultry, but still have two dairy goat wethers left over from our former herd. If you’re looking for quality purebred poultry, excellent free-range eggs, or instruction in barefoot hoof trimming, give us a shout…

Laura has a part-time business doing genealogy research for folks, so if you’re interested in having her track down your ancestors, find a missing relative, birth certificate, or probate record, just give her a shout, she’s getting pretty good at it all. She’s also done volunteer work for various non-profits and other groups for 35 years.

Click here to see their farm’s website and friends: http://www.pathfindersfarm.com/index.html .

The ExScite Amir Mushkat founded Shkedia financial services in 2001 and is managing it from Rockville MD. From 1997 to 2001 Amir was director of Professional Services at Shira Inc. Before that he was Project Manager at Scitex for 12 years between 1985 – 1997.
Shkedia Financial Services is a consulting firm advising companies, self employed and families who live, work and conduct business in the US or around the globe. Shkedia services include: Insurance (Health, Group Health, Dental, Life, Disability, International Travel, and Long Term Care), Investment (Retirement, Higher Education and Annuities), residential mortgage origination and Financial Needs Analysis. Serving Maryland (MD), Northern Virginia (VA) , Washington DC area.