Management Team

 

Erez Tatcher - CEO

Erez brings 18 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 - Obstacle Remover

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 the only about a 100 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.