 The Ex-Iris Chuck Sharp chuck.sharp@gretag.com has been appointed VP Marketing at the Gretag Imaging Group in San Jose, CA (previously known as: Raster Graphics) http://www.rgi.com, a supplier of wide format digital printers and CTP equipment. Prior to Gretag he was with Encad in San Diego and Digigarphics in Boston. Chuck was at Iris for 2 years in the middle of the Nineties. |
 We’ve just heard from Michael Ross mpross@cts.com who used to work at Scitex Herzlia in 1985/6 as marketing manager for the 280. Then known for his unusual photography. Since the Internet he scans his photos and generates digital art that is reproduced on an Iris machine. He’s had shows in New York Soho and Santa Monica this year. The prints are limited edition Giclees, up to 30″X40″ and sell for approximately $2.00 per square inch. Currently lives in San Diego, is divorced and remarried. Owns his own investment fund, for example they made 60% return this year!You can see some of his work on display at this location: http://www.artfulstyle.com/artists/artist.asp?artistid=115 |
John Lorusso jlorusso@parrotcolor.com is the president of Parrot Digigraphic which he founded in 1997. Parrot of Bedford MA (www.parrotcolor.com ) is is offering integrated color imaging systems, software, and consumables. Prior to Parrot, John has held various marketing positions at Iris Graphics.
For those of you looking for jobs in Kyrgizya, try to look at: http://www.jay.kg/Html-Eng/index-e.html The Foreign Russian-Israeli Stock Company Limited “Jay” was established in 1997 as Official Dealer of SCITEX and CreoSCITEX Companies for Central Asia and Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan). Contact: Alex_Yag@infotel.kg
Dan R. McConnell is back at Scitex. He has recently been appointed to lead the CreoScitex North America Packaging Group. Dan had been the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Barco Graphics North America, a position he held from 1993 to 1999. Before Barco Dan was at STA and Xyvision/Contex.
Shlomo Birman (sb@rtimage.com) , is the vice president, graphic arts products at RT-Image (www.rtimage.com) of Or-Yehuda, Israel, a network-imaging company. Shlomo was R&D manager for Shira, an Israeli company that specializes in commercial printing servers. Before Shira has had successfully initiated and led various projects at Scitex In Israel. Scitex Corp. is one of the investors in RT-Image. RT- Image has recently received another round of funding, also from DOR Ventures, which is managed by the ExScite’s Arie Rosenfeld and Ilan Neugarten (See more at the NEWS section on the left here).
 The ExScite Eldad Gefen is the president of Be-Connected, a Telrad Networks startup (www.be-connected.co.il) a provider of data communications and telecommunications solutions. Telrad is located in Lod, Israel. Eldad was in the Israeli Air Force as a Commander and Pilot. He spent several years in the U.S. working in executive positions in well-known start-ups and public companies. He was the marketing manager of the Print On Demand Systems Group at Scitex Israel in the late 90’s. Before moving to his current role of CEO at Be Connected, Eldad was the CEO of Firebit.net Inc. (another TN spin-off).In Nov 2000, Cisco has acquired 11% of Be-Connected, for $15 M, at a company value of $165 M. |
Amnon Neubach will become the chairman of the board of Pelephone (http://www.pelephone.co.il/), the Israeli cell phone company, held jointly by Motorola and the Israeli communication giant Bezek. Amnon is currently an economic consultant. In the middle of the 80’s during the existential crisis at Scitex, he was brought in for a short period, as a corporate VP finance and helped in the cost cutting and the turn around of the company.
 Yair Lahat, has joined MobilEye of Jerusalem, Israel http://www.mobileye.com/index_profile.html . He has 15 years of experience in Image processing Hardware Design. After graduating from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, he joined Scitex Corp. as a hardware design engineer. Later, Yair was one of the seed group of engineers that formed KARAT Digital Press Ltd – a joint venture between Scitex Corp. and KBA GmbH, to lead the hardware design of the Image Processing module used in the leading products of KARAT and Scitex. Next, Yair Joined the Scitex-backed SciDel Technologies Ltd. to lead the development of the hardware of the Imaging system that electronically inserts advertisements into live television broadcasts of sports and other events.MobilEye develops driving assistance systems based on a single video camera used in vehicle collision avoidance system. |
Dwight T. Johnson, president, Scitex Digital Printing, Inc. and Executive Vice President,Scitex Corporation LTD is retiring. He was president since 1993 and had previously acted as general manager of Eastman Kodak’s, Dayton Operations before its transformation into the Scitex organization. He joined Kodak in 1963 and held numerous positions during his tenure, including president of Kodak Japan Industries Limited. (see full article Scitex Digital Printing Appoints Homi Shamir New President at the Exscite NEWS section on the left)