Scrum Alliance® Appoints Søren Filbert as First Board Chair From Outside the U.S., Signaling Its Growing International Reach as It Advances Strategic Growth Plan

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The board of directors of Scrum Alliance, Inc., which provides agile training and education to professionals around the world, is proud to announce accomplished business entrepreneur and corporate leader Søren Filbert as its new chair, the first time the position will be filled by an executive based outside of the U.S.

Filbert, a current Scrum Alliance Board Member based in Denmark, sees his expanded role as chair as an opportunity to further the nonprofit’s goal to attract new members and offer more training, education, products, and enterprise agile solutions.

“This is an exciting time to serve as chair, as Scrum Alliance CEO Tristan Boutros, and the entire organization are making significant progress on plans to ensure professionals have the right skills and tools to build better products and solve complex problems that meet the demands of today’s rapidly changing workplaces. Our international reach means we have members from Gibraltar to South Korea and beyond,” says Filbert.

Filbert also notes that during his time as a CEO in the textile, fashion, tech, and workforce sectors he hired many scrum masters and product owners and has seen how an agile way of working and developing products and services is successful.

Scrum Alliance’s certification process has awarded over 1.4 million certificates to date and enables professionals from the entry to executive level with career-advancing agile tools. Scrum Alliance trainers and coaches are active agile experts in teaching the agile mindset and scrum framework and to date the organization has offered over 115,000 courses to professionals around the world.

Tristan Boutros, Scrum Alliance’s CEO, says, “I’m excited to partner with Søren and the entire board to build on our mission to bring enterprise agility to many more organizations around the world. We also thank and are grateful to Michael Meissner for his accomplished service as our board chair and all that he has contributed.”

Scrum Alliance is a 501(c)(6) nonprofit governed by a board of directors. The board guides the organization toward a sustainable future by advising on strategy, ensuring legal and financial best practices, and advancing the organization's mission. The Scrum Alliance Board of Directors has a minimum of nine members. Of these, three are elected by Scrum Alliance members and referred to as Scrum Certified Member Directors.

About Scrum Alliance, Inc.

Founded in 2001, Scrum Alliance® is the largest, most established and influential professional membership and certification organization in the agile community. Scrum Alliance is a nonprofit association that has certified more than 1.4 million practitioners worldwide. Its mission is to advance real-world agility by equipping and inspiring the changemaker in everyone. For more information please visit www.scrumalliance.org.