The ExScite Maarten Strack sent this picture to us.
Maarten had taken the picture using a Leaf camera-back at the 1996 graphic arts show Fugrama in Belgium. The show included the first body-painting demo and digital photography. To see many more of Maarten’s artistic pictures log into his image website here: www.pbase.com/maartensvs/digityal_1996
It is with deep sorrow that we have to report the passing of our ExScite Paul Quandt.
Paul died Sunday as the result of injuries sustained earlier in the weekend in a motorcycle accident in Lake Wales, Florida.
Paul, or “Q” as he was known, was a Scitex America service engineer. Soon after he was hired he quickly became indispensable, first as the in-house expert on Cypher tape drives, then later on scanners. He understood not only the mechanics and electronics, but the art and science of color, traveling around the country and around the world, not only to install and repair scanners but to help customers understand how to make the best use of them.
As a skydiver, he achieved many national and international honors. His team most recently won a Gold Medal in an international meet in Russia in August.
You can read about Paul’s skydiving here: Qauntum Leap Grabs Gold
Paul’s picture (above) was submitted by the ExScite (STA) Howard White. Howard writes: “[this picture of Paul] might be appropriate. I took it many years ago in freefall, and, though not as sharp as it might be, [the picture] conveys his spirit (and has a Scitex touch, see the Scitex cap he is holding)”.
Steve Hoffenberg is Director, Consumer Imaging Research at Lyra Research.
Steve is responsible for Lyra’s market research in consumer digital imaging products and services and is the principal analyst for the Consumer Imaging Intelligence advisory service.
He has more than a decade of product management and market research experience in the digital imaging industry. He was the product manager for digital cameras at Leaf Systems (now a division of Eastman Kodak), one of the pioneering companies of the digital camera industry in the early 1990s.
He initially joined Lyra in 1996 as founding director of the Digital Photography Advisory Service.
In 2000, Steve became director of product management at Sound Vision Inc., an engineering firm that designed low-cost digital cameras and TV-centric digital imaging and audio products. He rejoined Lyra in 2004 and led the company’s research in the digital television market before returning to lead the Consumer Imaging Intelligence service. Steve was with Leaf near Boston, when Scitex acquired the digital imaging startup (See biography).
Founded in 1991, Lyra Research http://www.lyra.com is a provider of market, product, and technology information and analysis focused on the imaging industry. Lyra Research provides targeted information on printers and copiers, digital photography, and imaging supplies to more than 2,000 clients in more than 40 countries. Lyra’s portfolio of services includes leading industry newsletters, special market reports, advisory services, conferences, and custom consulting.
This picture was taken at the Montparnas Tower / Floor 46, in Paris on 10 Jan. 1998. Those were the first days of the in POS in Europe. The ?98 New Year?s dinner celebrated the establishment of the first Print On Demand OEM team in Europe.
Eli Israeli was the POS Manager and the late Domingo Nieves was the European Manager.
The picture has been submitted by Meir Molnik. Sitting around the table from left to right:
Eli Israeli, Meir Kolnik & his Wife, Jonathan Mayshar & his wife,
Ilan Sharon & his wife, Katleen Virbeek, Marc Linotte & wife.
IDIT Technologies announced the promotion of its Executive VP, Sales and Marketing, the ExScite Yoel Amir. to the position of CEO. Yoel has two years experience as CEO of the company’s European subsidiary IDIT Europe NV, I.D.I. Technologies. Prior to that, he served as CEO of Advanced Systems Europe and held a number of CIO positions in advanced international hi-tech companies, most notably Scitex Europe in Brussels.
IDIT Technologies is an international vendor of Enterprise Application Software for the administration and full life-cycle support of insurance products and financial services. IDIT’s flagship product is a fully implemented, comprehensive online system for the insurance industry.
IDIT is owned by the Israeli Formula Systems Group (NASDAQ: FORTY and TASE: FORT), a IT solutions provider and services company.
Eyal Desheh is chief financial officer at Check Point Software, he is responsible for all Worldwide financial management including investor relations, financial and risk management, planning and reporting. Prior to joining the Check Point team in May 2000, Desheh served as chief financial officer for Scitex Corporation Ltd., a world leader in digital imaging solutions for graphics communications, where he managed all major financial functions including investor relations, risk management, mergers and acquisitions and legal affairs.
Before joining Scitex, he served in numerous finance management and business development roles including Vice President of Business Development and Strategy at Bezeq, The Israeli Telecommunications Corp., Deputy CFO of Teva Pharmaceuticals Ltd., President of H.L. Financial Services Ltd. and Vice President of Bank Hapoalim New York.
The Israeli company Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (www.checkpoint.com) is a leader in securing the Internet. Through its NGX platform, the company delivers a unified security architecture for a broad range of perimeter, internal, Web, and endpoint security solutions that protect business communications and resources for corporate networks and applications, remote employees, branch offices and partner extranets.
| The ExScite Avi Raby who joined Jemtex Ltd as a CEO, completed an MBO of Jemtex together with the ExScite Shuki Sheinman, Jemtex’s CTO. Following the transition of Scailex from IDB to Petrochemical Indu. and the decision of Scailex not to further invest in Jemtex .Avi has concluded an MBO agreement and took control over the company . Jemtex is geared now to market its inkjet printers in the ceramic tiles industry and has few additional activities that injects revenues into the company. Jemtex is developing industrial wide-format inkjet printers for fabric, ceramic tiles and corrugated cartons.  In his 24 years in Scitex, Avi Raby, CEO has held various positions, including: European Customer Support Director, International Purchasing Director and Vice President of Human Resources atScitex Corp. General Manager of Creo ME&A. Later he was the CEO of KlearVision Ltd.; Before joining Jemtex, Avi was the CEO of SDT and raised $5 millions from Sequoia capital. Dr. Shuki Sheinman Jemtex founder and CTO. In a career spanning over 20 years, Shuky has developed advanced systems and managed R&D and engineering teams for leading hi-tech enterprises and organizations, including NASA, Scitex, Cubital and El-Op. An inventor of numerous patents, he is the primary force behind the company’s various proprietary technologies. Dr. Sheinman holds degrees in Mathematics, Mechanics, and Control Engineering.Jemtex of Lod, Israel, develops and applies proprietary innovations in Continuous Ink Jet technology for industrial printing applications, currently focusing on the textile and tile printing segments. A proprietary Continuous Inkjet (CIJ) technology developed by the company incorporates innovations in nozzle design, multi-level drop deflection and assignment, multi-nozzle head design, and on-line multi-jet calibration and control. These innovations enable the first viable digital printing solution for industrial applications. Jemtex has been backed by the Scitex Corporation – which was later “converted” into Scailex |
Since 2005, Avi Huppert is the CEO of Mempile.
Avi has held senior technical and mangement positions at Aprion, Scitex Israel output group and Israel Aircraft Industry.
Located near Jerusalem, Mempile developes a removable optical drive capable of storing one Terabyte (1,000 Gigabytes) of data on a single disc; two orders of magnitude more than what is available today. The company’s technology comprises both the disc itself and the drive required to read and write. Mempile’s discs will allow for fully secured storage of information and the application of robust digital rights management schemes; also, its discs have a much longer projected shelf-life than what is common today. Mempile has signed a number of cooperation agreements for the manufacturing and marketing of its products with major media and storage corporations.
Mempile was founded by Ortal Alpert CTO, in 2000. It raised about $27M from venture capital funds and strategic investors in three previous financing rounds.
In 1988 Scitex celebrated its 20th anniversary. The event was celebrated outdoors in Ramat Gan, Israel. During the formal part of the celebration, the president Efi Arazi presented token of appreciation to a group of veteran employees, who had joined the company on its first 12 months (1968/9).
In the picture, Efi (right) is handing over a gift to Ilan Fono (left), In the background from right to left: Aharon Nizani, Shosh Komemi, Yakov Laor.
Shuky Bronfeld joined CogniTens in late 2004 and today serves as the company?s VP R&D operations. Before joining CogniTens, Shuky served as VP R&D and division management member of the PCB Division at Orbotech (NASDAQ: ORBK), leading manufacturer of industrial machine vision systems. Prior to that Shuky founded a start-up in the high-tech field under the umbrella of the israeli Chief Scientist Office. Shuky began his managerial career at the Scitex cooperation, where he served as Department Head for the DFE (Digital Front End) Product Unit as his last position.
CogniTens is a provider of dimensional measurement solutions, focused on improving engineering and manufacturing processes in the automotive and other manufacturing industries. Their solutions are based on innovations in 3-D non-contact measurement technology, especially designed for manufacturing environments.
CogniTens is a privately held corporation headquartered in Israel, with offices in North America, Japan as well as representation and operations in other major automotive industry centers such as South America, Europe and East Asia including China and Korea.