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.
 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 |
(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.
 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. |
 Dani Herzka ( daniel@herzka.com ) has just completed a match-making deal between CreoScitex and Ultimate Technographics, incorporating the Ultimate imposition engine with CreoScitex Spire color servers, to enable automatic, post-RIP page assembly and imposition layouts on-the-fly during printing. “This has been an exciting project, which combines the best imposition software with the best color server,” added Daniel (Dani) Herzka, an industry consultant who has been closely involved in the project. “It has demonstrated how two companies can successfully work together to deliver a superior product for the benefit of their end users”.Dani runs a successful consulting business from Long Island New York. |
William Von Gonten pajamacat@earthlink.net has joined the Sports Illustrated magazine in NY (an AOL TimeWarner publication) as imaging specialist, after 3 years at STA.
As he registered to the ExScite Members dBase, William wrote: “ I have spent the last 5 yrs in state mental hospitals due to bad experiences with Dolev 100s. Sleep with sliced cucumber on my eyes to relieve blindness caused but defective barco monitors. 3 yrs with scitex were the best years of my life!!”
 Shimon Alon (alons@precisesoft.com ) is the CEO of Precise software since 1997. He joined Precise after 14 years at Scitex where he served in various management, sales, marketing, and customer support capacities. From 1995 to 1996, Shimon was in charge of the Graphic Art Division. From 1995 to 1996, Shimon was Scitex America CEO and earlier he was STE Managing Director and VP customer support.Steve Spector spectors@aol.com joined Precise Boston office as Director, Business and Program Development. From ‘89 to ’94 Steve was at STA. Prior to joining Precise he was with Indigo and Polaroid Graphics in Boston. Precise Software Solutions (Nasdaq: PRSE; www.precise.com), located in Savyon, Israel, with offices in Europe and the USA, is in the business of boosting business efficiency and profitability through IT infrastructure performance management in Oracle-based environments. |
Rafi Holtzman (raf@efi.com) in managing eBeam http://www.e-beam.com/ , an Electronic For Imaging [EFI] spin-off. eBeam is the electronic marker system that captures meeting notes and diagrams as you create them, so they can be viewed, saved, edited, shared, and printed using any Windows PC. It instantly transform any whiteboard into a powerful tool for capturing and sharing information. eBeam enhances teamwork, reduces travel costs, and makes meetings more effective — immediately. EFI is located in Foster City CA. Rafi was application engineer and product designer at Scitex in the 80’s.
Uzi Ish Horwitz
The ExScite Uzi Ish Horowitz, chairman of the board of Shira Computers, Ltd. www.shira.com appointed three new ExScite executives in its US office. Uzi was the Scitex COO for many years in the 70’s and 80’s.
Lazy Yanay joins as Corporate Vice President, Product Marketing. At Creo-Scitex he has held the position of Marketing Manager of the Printing Workflow Solutions Division.
Leigh Kimmelman joins. as VP, Product Marketing. At Creo-Scitex America where he was Product Marketing Manager of the Output Imaging Systems Division.
Shimon Orian returns to Shira, Inc., as VP, Customer Support. Shimon comes to Shira from Orset Corporation, a prepress integrator and longtime Shira dealer. Previously he worked for many years at Scitex in customer support. Shimon was part of Shira at its founding, and has had hands-on experience with nearly all Shira products ever since.
Shira is a developer of enhanced prepress and printing workflows. The company is a privately held with headquarter in Kfar Saba, Israel and offices in Woburn, MA.
For full story- read the ExScite News from 3/27/2001.
Jorge Steinfeld jorge@checkpoint.com has been appointed VP Information Systems at Check Point. Prior to this appointment, Jorge served as Check Point’s director of Information Systems. Before joining Check Point in 1998, Steinfeld worked for 10 years at Scitex as corporate applications manager where he was responsible for all applications for the corporate office in addition to all Scitex subsidiaries. In addition, he spent two of the ten years as Economic Department Manager, responsible for financial reports, budget preparation and control.
Eyal Desheh is the Chief Financial Officer at Check Point. Prior to joining the Check Point in May 2000, Desheh served as chief financial officer for Scitex. Before joining Scitex, he served in numerous finance management and business development roles including VP Business Development and Strategy at Bezeq, The Israeli Telecommunications Corp., Deputy CFO of Teva Pharmaceuticals , President of H.L. Financial Services and VP of Bank Hapoalim New York.
Check Point Software Technologies http://www.checkpoint.com (NASDAQ: CHKP) Ramat-Gan, Israel is in the business of securing the Internet. The company’s provides the infrastructure that enables secure and reliable Internet communications. In 12/2000 the company has been added to the prestigious Nasdaq-100 Index®