Custom Image Header
The custom image header at the top of this blog has kind of taken on a life of its own. Some weeks it changes. Some weeks it doesn’t. There isn’t any grand plan or concept. Have found that in researching posts, I will often come across interesting images of people, places or things that are related to that week’s post. If the images seem like they should be in the header, I try to find a spot for them.
In any case, I find it entertaining.
1 One of msystems’ buildings in Kfar Saba. I took this picture in October of 2006. Figure the signs have changed by now.
2 The golden chip behind the FLSH building is an x4 controller (I think.) If not the controller, it’s likely an x4 chip. SanDisk (and FLSH before them) seems to use this image to illustrate x4 in presentation graphics
3 Shlomi Cohen, veteran Israeli financial journalist and stock analyst who writes the ‘Buy, Sell, Hold’ column for the Israeli financial publication, the Globes. Shlomi’s always worth listening to. A smart, connected guy who calls them like he sees them.
4 Swirly graphics from Infone-tech which has now become modu. Not really legible here, but I liked the feel.
5 Dov Moran, co-founder of msystems which was acquired by SanDisk Corporation in 2006. Moran was president, CEO and chairman of the board of directors of msystems from 1989 until September 2006. Under Dov, msystems grew from a company with annual revenues of $16 million in 1998 to $615 million in 2005.
Dov is founder, CEO and Chairman of modu. modu was established in early 2007. modu’s vision is to bring a fundamental change to the dynamics of the mobile phone industry. and is dedicated to developing products, technologies, a wide ecosystem and business relationships that will help realize that ambition. modu had its official launch in February 2008 at the Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona, Spain.
Dov is also now Chairman of the Board for Tower Semiconductor.
6 Simone Cavallo, behind Dov. Simone is VP of SanDisk’s MNO division. He came to SanDisk with the msystems’ acquisition. At FLSH, he had also been VP of msystems’ MNO division. He was hired by msystems to manage Microelectronica Espanola, likely from STMicro where he had been Group Vice-President, Smart Card Telecom Division. Before STM, Simone was a general executive manager at Incard, one of the world’s main producers of smart cards.
7 Eli Harari. President and CEO of SanDisk since the company’s inception in 1988. He’s the vision guy or big kahuna, if you’re an SNDK investor.
8 Tower Semiconductor. Eli sits on the board. Dov is chairman. Tower produces controllers for SanDisk. SanDisk is Tower’s biggest customer. Stay tuned.
9 Al Shugart, over Eli’s shoulder. Al was Seagate’s CEO and a longtime SanDisk board member. By investing in and partnering with SanDisk in the early 1990s, Al had effectively implemented a solid-state memory insurance policy for Seagate’s hard-disk franchise. When Al was forced out of Seagate in 1998, Seagate management burned its SanDisk bridges, selling its 12M+ SanDisk shares and severing ties between the two companies. Al stayed on the SanDisk board until shortly before his death in 2006.
10 Kate Purmal is Senior VP & GM of SanDisk’s Digital Content group. What she is up to beyond USBTV, is something of a mystery, but there are clues.
With more than 20 years in the computer industry, Kate knows her way around Silicon Valley. She was one of the founding members of Palm Computing where she built and ran the product marketing and strategic alliance organization, helping to build the developer community supporting the Palm OS. In addition, she has held senior roles in marketing, product marketing, business development, sales, and engineering at Interleaf, Grid Systems, and Computer Associates.
11 John Albano (1936 – 2000) For those not familiar with Cencomco, he was a legend on the old FLSH Yahoo board. Remarkably articulate guy with a knack for dead-on predictions. Nice write-up on Cencomco in Wired.com.
