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Erez Tatcher

 

 

Erez brings 20 years of experience in management, marketing and sales in the technological market, the last 13 years of which were as CEO. Erez earned a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Technion and, after several years as a software engineer at Motorola, Israel, he returned to the Technion to complete his M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Business Administration. He then served as VP marketing and international business development in a company specializing in Middle Eastern markets. In his next position Erez acted as the CEO of a large educational organization in Israel with 5000+ students per year. Following this he became the CEO of InterBit, a software development company which engaged in project development, consulting and training in the international market, a position he held for 7 years, before joining AgileSparks. Erez has extensive experience as a business consultant and coach and is a board member of several technological startups. Erez is a Certified Scrum Master and a Certified Scrum Product Owner.

Erez can be reached at erez@agilesparks.com. 

Danny (Danko) Kovatch 

 

Danko is a seasoned veteran in the IT industry. His first steps began in 1997 when he completed 5 years of service in the Israeli army in a special elite program, where he was group manager in a computer unit. Afterwards, Danko joined a startup by the name of EagleEye, a subsidiary company of New Dimension where he was in charge of several development groups . In 2000, BMC purchased New Dimension and Eagle Eye became a business unit of BMC. In 2005, Danko was exposed to Scrum and, from that date, there was no looking back. Danko gained more and more knowledge and experience in Agile and specifically in Scrum and found himself lecturing and helping other companies to assimilate Scrum. After leaving BMC, he served as VP, R&D in several companies and, when the demand for Scrum was too much to handle in parallel, he resigned all posts and became an independent consultant. After an intensive year in which Danko lectured and assimilated Scrum for dozens of companies, he initiated AgileSparks. Danko is a well recognized international speaker with unique ways of presenting Scrum to newcomers. He is a Certified Scrum Trainer (one of only 107 international trainers in the world). Danko is best known for his great enthusiasm for Scrum and his Scrum spark.

Danko can be reached at danko@agilesparks.com. 

Ronen Bar Nahor

Dr. Ronen Bar Nahor is a Senior Coach working with teams and executives, with a vast experience in scaling Agile in complex systems and products, from the team to the Enterprise/Portfolio/Product levels.

 

Before joining AgileSparks, Ronen had initiated and lead the Agile implementation at Amdocs Product Group (R&D), spanning 3 years with over 100 scrum teams in five countries. In addition he developed and implemented the Product Development methodology and lead the SQA group at the R&D division. These changes entailed complex change management processes (re-engineering of organizational structure, processes, tools and HR policies), which Ronen has lead with Amdocs' senior management.

 

In addition Ronen has extensive hands-on experience in managing software development groups and projects both in Canada and Israel.

 

Ronen holds a PhD in Organizational Behavior & Information systems from the Technion. He was a senior lecturer for many years at the Technion (Software Quality Assurance, system analysis and more) and was the head of the department of Computer Science and Information Systems at Emek Yezreel College.

Ronen can be reached at ronen@agilesparks.com.

 

Yuval Yeret

 

Yuval is in the IS/IT and Software Engineering world since 1994. He started as a Mamarm Programmer in the Israeli Air Force IS unit, where, among other positions, he served as section leader of a key infrastructure unit. Afterwards, he joined a startup by the name of Exanet, where he was a team lead for several years. He then joined DiskSites and quickly became their VP R&D. While an agile spirit was with yuval all along, in DiskSites was the first place he solidified his views on Agile Leadership and Project management and used them to achieve a turn around in the R&D delivery capabilities, leading to being acquired by Expand Networks. Then, Yuval joined SANRAD, with the goal of transforming the R&D organization. As part of his role, he transformed SANRAD R&D into an agile organization, better able to cope with the challenges of developing and productizing a networked storage embedded product. Yuval is a practicing Certified Scrum Master since 2007, and has also served as Product Owner in numerous situations. He's fond of system-level thinking and root cause analysis at the Process, Technical and Organizational level, leading unsurprisingly to great enthusiasm for the Agile world, Lean Software Development, and always looking for  the real pains and the best approach to address them.

Yuval can be reached at yuval@agilesparks.com 

Inbar Oren

Inbar brings with him more than 15 years of experience in the Hi-Tech market, working in small and large companies, in a range of roles from development and architecture to working with customers as Project and Product Manager.

 

Since 2008, Inbar has been helping development organizations improve their results by adopting Agile and Lean practices. Inbar focuses on management in an Agile/Lean world, working with companies to build new processes and a new culture.

Because of his background in Product Management, Inbar sees Agile/Lean not just as a development tool, and works with Product and Marketing departments to teach them how to use Agile/Lean tools to respond quicker and more effectively to the changing markets.
 
Inbar holds an MA in Buddhism and East Asian Cultures as well two second degree black belts in the martial arts of Iaido and Jodo.

Inbar is currently studying for a PhD in East Asian mythology. 

Inbar can be reached at inbar@agilesparks.com

Elad Amit

 

Elad has been a part of the IT industry since 1998, making the shift to product development in 2001 when he formed his own software development shop specializing in e-commerce solutions along with several of his closest friends. Since then, Elad has served as an R&D Team Leader, Program Manager, and Director of Product Development.

Throughout his years, Elad has experimented with several flavors of scrum and agile which led him to his current position as a Scrum and Agile Coach in AgileSparks.

Today, Elad is a practicing CSM and CSPO, working with several organizations through the process of implementing agile processes and engineering practices.

You can find and reach Elad at http://il.linkedin.com/in/eladamit and via elad@agilesparks.com

At the top of his agenda, Elad has fun and operational excellence, it is his belief that without them success is not possible!

 

Yael Rabinowitz

Yael is in the IS/IT world since 1994. Among other positions she led the certification of the Computer officers in the IDF's Center of Computing, building and conducting the advanced training program for the computer engineers. Afterwards, she continued educating software developers and computer engineers in various areas in John Bryce Training center. In 2000 she joined a startup by the name of Oblicore as a developer and in the next 9 years she served in a wide range of positions: Professional services project manager, Product manager and finally Release management. In her role as product manager Yael first started working in the Agile spirit and as a Release Manager she took leadership promoting the Agile practices in order to improve R&D delivery capabilities.

Yael is a practicing Certified Scrum Master since 2008 and Certified Product Owner since 2009.

 .Yael can be reached at yael@agilesparks.com

 

Ofer Cohen  

Ofer can be reached at ofer@agilesparks.com.

 

Dorit Sher

Dorit can be reached at dorit@agilesparks.com.

 

 

Gil Nahmias

Gil Nahmias is an agile coach, trainer and practitioner. He was touched by Scrum first in 2006 as a development manager and ever since, couldn't get enough with agile product development. 

 

Through his agile journey Gil keeps on realizing how team energy, fun and visibility are crucial motivators to organizational success. He focuses on bringing a spirit of liveliness, trust, proactiveness and harshly dropping non-value actions.

 

Via his remarkable training system, negotiation skills, new facilitation techniques and boldly visualizing the work process Gil creates the environment for the both teams and managers to grow and become more effective.

 

Gil is a practicing CSM, CSPO, CSP. While not practicing agile you can find him skydiving, playing capoeira or hiking.

Gil can be reached at gil@agilesparks.com.