Our Leadership

FOUNDER AND CEO,

A resource economist, environmental planner, and entrepreneur, was born and grew up in the U.S. and has spent most of his adult life working on both sides of the Atlantic for public and private sector clients. In 2003, he leveraged technical skills in Geographic Information Systems and web-based information systems to create the consultancy that would become IronRooster. Today, his company is Central Europe’s leading provider of regulated software services for healthcare and medical technology firms.

DIRECTOR OF STRATEGY AND CO-OWNER,

Lajos Kardos has been with the company since 2004. He earned a degree in IT engineering from Széchenyi University of Győr and later completed an MBA program at the same university. He earned a certificate in Project Management at Villanova University and he completed the Entrepreneurship course at Harvard Business School. Lajos has spent much of his career leading software teams developing safety-critical, regulated healthcare applications and managing the company’s quality assurance processes. In his current role, he oversees our Human Resources and Business Development teams.

DIRECTOR OF INNOVATION AND CO-OWNER, 

“The best thing that you can do with an idea is to share it with others!” This is the motto of our Director of Innovation and Co-Owner Pál Molnár who has been with the company since its earliest days. Pál has a degree in IT engineering from Széchenyi University of Győr and also completed an MBA program at the same university. His passion for innovation and new technologies motivated him into product development at the company.

KEY ACCOUNT MANAGER, 

Nate Sandys joined the IronRooster business development team in 2020 bringing with him 20+ years of operations leadership and data management experience. Throughout his career, he has served as a visionary for the development of business applications, data management/quality control systems, and client reporting software. Nate has a passion for solving business and customer problems and understands the complexities of translating business needs into a software solution.

HEAD OF PRODUCT DESIGN,

Hella has 13 years of experience in graphic design including seven years related to mobile and web applications (UX/UI) and five years managing complex product development projects. She also plays an integral role in UX/UI design and as a product owner for internal software projects of the R&D division. Hella is responsible for understanding business needs, planning user journeys and functions, designing user interfaces, and specifying user stories for the developer team. In 2016, she was tapped to head the product design team where her goal is “to design successful and useful products for our clients.”

HEAD OF QUALITY CONTROL, 

Tekla has been a Software Testing Lead at IronRooster since 2015. Her main responsibilities include developing processes and KPIs and overseeing the company’s quality control team. Tekla has over a decade of experience on international projects and eight years as a manager. Tekla is a highly qualified expert who, during her tenure at the company, has managed software testing for numerous releases of five different FDA-regulated software products. Her main strengths are process development, KPIs, and software test quality reporting.

HEAD OF QUALITY ASSURANCE, 

Attila leads our growing group of quality assurance experts while maintaining the company’s internal processes and keeping us current in the realm of regulatory compliance. One of our major goals is to share our accumulated expertise in the field of quality assurance with younger players of the industry – a goal that suits Attila’s decade old journey within the company just as much as his international work experience and approachable demeanor.