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Guy Gecht is Chief Executive Officer of Electronics For Imaging Inc. (NASDAQ: EFII) the world leader in digital imaging and print management solutions for commercial and enterprise printing. As CEO Mr. Gecht is focused on leading EFI to achieve greater growth in revenue and profitability. His key initiatives include increasing EFI’s market penetration diversifying the company’s product offerings and introducing new services that will drive demand for digital printing in corporations worldwide.
Since joining the company in 1995 Mr. Gecht has risen through the ranks at EFI serving in a variety of management and engineering roles. Prior to being named EFI’s CEO in January 2000 he served as President of the company. In this role he spearheaded the launch of EFI’s first suite of print workflow software which leverages EFI’s industry-leading color printing technology while providing EFI with new and expanded markets. Since becoming CEO he has also guided EFI through many acquisitions including the most recent acquisition of VUTEk the world leader in superwide digital inkjet printing.
From January 1996 until July 1999 Mr. Gecht led EFI’s engineering efforts for the company’s largest product line culminating in his position as Vice President General Manager of EFI’s Fiery Servers Division. He led his team to dramatically expand the depth and breadth of EFI’s server product line with over 35 products launched in 1998 alone. Today’s Fiery servers can print up to 2000 full color variable data pages per minute the fastest digital server in the industry.
Before joining EFI Mr. Gecht was Director of Engineering at Interro Systems and held software management positions at ASP and Apple Israel. Between 1985 to 1990 he served as an officer in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) managing an engineering development team and later was an Acting Manager of one of the IDF’s high-tech divisions.
Mr. Gecht holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and computer science from Ben Gurion University in Israel. | 