Efi Arazi
| Efi Arazi | |
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| Native name | אפי ארזי |
| Born | Efraim R. Arazi 14 April 1937 |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Occupation | High Tech Entrepreneur |
| Employer | Seerun Ltd. |
| Title | Chairman |
Efraim R. "Efi" Arazi (Hebrew: אפי ארזי) (14 April 1937 – 14 April 2013)[1] was an Israeli businessman.[2]
Education
Arazi enrolled as a Shoher to study electronics in the Israel Defense Forces at the Air Force Technological Academy,[3] He earned an engineering degree in the 1960s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[4][5] (he was accepted to MIT via the "extraordinary cases" as he did not have a matriculation certificate).[3]
Business career
Arazi began his career in the United States. He returned to Israel in June 1967.[6] In 1968 he founded and headed Scitex Corporation (renamed Scailex Corporation in 2005), an Israel-based multi-national company that specialized in developing and manufacturing hardware and software for the graphics design, printing, and publishing markets.[6][7][8] It was the first Israeli high-tech firm, and at its peak employed 4,000 people.[9] Arazi stepped down as CEO and president of Scitex on 1 June 1988,[10] but continued to serve as chairman of the board of directors of the company (a position to which he had been appointed on 1 May 1985) until 18 January 1989, when Robert Maxwell's Mirror Group acquired a 27% stake in the company and Maxwell was appointed chairman.[11]
In 1988 Arazi founded Electronics for Imaging.[4][12] He later became CEO of iMedia, a developer of tools for cable, satellite, and terrestrial television operators to manage compressed digital video.[8]
In 2006, he sold two large apartments in Treetop Towers (Migdalei Tzameret), on Pinkas Street in Tel Aviv, for $12 million.[13]
At the time of his death, Arazi was chairman of Seerun Ltd.[8]
References
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External links
- Efi Arazi: His Way; A Biography, by Dalit Milstein (2004)
