Gossip

After 13 years at Scitex, Hanan Yosefi hanany@comview-vs.com has moved on. He has been appointed CEO of ComView Visual Systems. Hanan has held various positions at R&D, application and product management in Scitex, Israel. His last position at Creo/Scitex was VP Workflow division in Israel the largest division in Creo/Scitex, responsible for wide variety of Data management and digital front end solutions for both prepress and digital printing. ComView Visual Systems of Raanana, Israel www.comview -vs.com (founded in 1996) applies breakthrough optical technology (patent pending) to the development and production of high definition, large screen displays, both for rear projection and front projection applications, using solid-state projection technology.

Vic Stalam was named VP, Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer, of Kodak Polichrome Graphics KPG www.kpgraphics.com , in January 2001. Vic was most recently President and Chief Operating Officer of VIO North America a JV of Scitex in NJ, and prior to that, he was VP, Marketing and Sales, of the digital printing company Xyan.com.
For seventeen years, he was with Kodak in positions including: GM & VP– Digital Products and Systems, Kodak Professional Division; Director and VP – Integrated Imaging Solutions, Kodak Professional & Printing Imaging; Marketing and Sales Manager, Kodak Graphics Imaging Systems Division – Digital Color Proofing; and Marketing Manager, High Volume Printers, Kodak Copy Products Division.

Is Rami Gilboa rami_gil@netvision.net.il having fun, or what?
For the 8 years since he left Scitex Israel, Rami drives off road and runsto tell the guys. He is freelancing a weekly column in Maariv, and plays a main role in Israel’s only 4×4 magazine: “Hegee”. He has also published “The Jeep” book, a comprehensive 4×4 guide. Doing so he drives monsters like the one in the picture here (to the see a large monster click: http://www.rozin.com/exscite/gossip/RAMI_4x4big.jpg). Rami has been seen lately 4-wheeling in Greece, Turkey, the snow-covered French Alps, Namibia, Thailand and Patagonia. InMarch 2001 he plans to drive snowmobiles in Lapland and in June he plans on18 days 4×4 expedition to the Indian Himalayas & Ladack. Ah… by the way, Rami also manage a marcomm consulting business (print-production coordination) in Ramat Hasharon, Israel.

Itzik Savariego

Itzik Savariego itzik_savariego@adwise.net is Managing Director, Adwise Europe in Paris. Before joining Adwise, Itzik served as VP Sales and Operations at STE in Brussels. Prior to STE, he was Director of Corporate Marketing Planning at Scitex Israel. Itzik came to Scitex from Tadiran where he managed operations.
The Ramat-Gan based Adwise www.adwise.net , established in 1998, provides advertising infrastructure solutions for the management and delivery of scalable and targeted advertising and e-commerce offerings across the Internet.

Mike Grossman

Dr. Mike GrossmanMike@MagnaBizDev.comis managing Magna Business Development www.magnabizdev.com, of Herzlia, Israel. Magna is a consulting group dedicated to serving the business development needs of early stage technology companies and work with investors and industrial partners in Israel and abroad.Mike joined Scitex in Israel in 1979, as Corporate Marketing Manager and later went on to develop and manage the Asian, South African and Oceania division. After 5 years at Scitex, Mike managed several technology startups before he started Magna Business Development in 1992.

Dov Shacham shacham_dov@emc.com is the director of engineering operations at EMC near Boston MA. Dov was 10 years at Scitex, applications manager in Herzlia ’84-’90 and Response center manager at STA ‘90-’94. From ’94-’97 he was sales & marketing manager at Indigo, and until ’99 he was the managing director of the Israeli based Scopus Optical.
EMC² of Hopkinton MA www.emc.com is the world leader in mass storage solutions. The company designs, manufactures, markets and supports a wide range of hardware and software products and provide services for the storage, management, protection and sharing of electronic information.

Gideon Hazam gideonh@emicomgroup.com is a Founding Partner at the Emicom Group of Ramat-Gan, Israel.
Gideon was the director of Information Technology for the European and Israeli operations of Scitex. He was at Scitex for 13.5 years. After leaving Scitex, Gideon served as VP of international operations at Memco, responsible for the company’s IT services, human resources and general administration. Memco was recently sold to Computer Associates. Earlier, during his military service, Gideon was responsible for mainframe computer operations at the IDF Computing Center.
Emicom Group http://www.emicomgroup.com invests in promising technology start-ups, teaming with them, accelerating their time-to-market and propelling them to become leaders in their field.

As we have hinted earlier Nur Macroprint has recruited another prominent ExScite’nik (see the Nur Gossip below). Now the news is official: Eli Shalev elis@nur.com came on board as VP R&D at the Magshimim, Israel-based company www.nur.com.

Effective April 1, 2001, Shlomo Shamir will assume the position of president of the American subsidiary (located in Secaucus, NJ) of the Israeli company NICE. Shlomo will be a member of the Nice Management Team and will report to Haim Shani Corporate President & CEO (you guessed it… an ExScite himself. To see- scroll down at the Gossip article at: http://www.rozin.com/exscite/newsdb/gossiplist.asp?offset=30 ). Shlomo was a VP at Scitex in Herzlia president of STA in Bedford MA.
NICE Systems (www.nice.com) is a provider of multimedia digital recording solutions, applications and related professional services for business interaction management. (See a recent interview with Haim “Haim Shani steps in to rescue the company”) at: http://www.globes.co.il/serveEN/globes/docView.asp?did=469814&fid=942 ). Recent rumors are that the Israeli company Comverse is planning a takeover of Nice.