Ing. Peter SOROKA
CEO / Founder
54 years old
Computer programmer - 5y
Owner and Director of a small, private company -15y
Ing. Imrich HAVRIŠ
CMO
54 years old
CEO Carlsberg Kazakhstan 2,2y
Managing Director - Topvar Breweries part of SABMiller Group Slovakia 3,3y
Jozef SOROKA
COO
50 years old
Commercial manager (SK) for External portfolio, MT-1, Heineken Slovakia - 15 y
Ing. Miloš TIMKO
CTO
53 years old
Director of a small, private company -10y
The founder and creator explains how eCoach started
My relationship with mathematics began at school. At elementary school, I helped a lot of people with homework or explaining material that some people didn’t understand.
I got back into maths with my older son, who suffered from a specific learning disability – dyscalculia. Throughout his schooling, I was looking for the best ways to explain mathematics to make it more understandable to him.
..I wanted to show off to my future employer.
When I started thinking about returning to the job I studied for – programming – I wanted to create a demonstration program to present to a potential employer, as I had not programmed for a very long time and was working in another field.
I remember sitting at the computer wondering what interesting things I could program. I thought about mathematics, I had always enjoyed it. So maybe solving an equation with one unknown? But there were surely an awful lot of such programs; that wouldn’t be interesting at all. But what if I did the calculation and the program checked me, couldn’t that be interesting....? And if it wasn’t for just one type of calculation, but all different kinds of mathematics, that would be amazing. And suddenly, instead of making a program for a potential employer, it was a project that I became very interested in.
During my son’s studies at university I returned again, to the idea of creating a program that would help him in his studies. I started helping him, acting as an eCoach, much like a program. I introduced procedures and rules that I kept repeating to him. The same rules are always the same with the same type of errors. My approach proved itself and after a short time, his mathematics results improved significantly, he made tremendous progress during the school year and became the biggest fan of the eCoach project.
This result motivated me to create new software that would help all students based on their individual needs at any time of the day, not only in mathematics, but also in other subjects involving calculations.