Kevin Surace

Kevin J. Surace
Born	July 12, 1962
Nationality	USA
Occupation	Technology
Known for	Serious Energy, Appvance, Speaker

Kevin Surace (born July 12, 1962) is an American technology innovator, speaker and entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Appvance, creator of a DevOps QA platform. He was Inc. Magazine’s 2009 entrepreneur of the Year.

Planet Forward, CNBC and the World Economic Forum have recognized Surace as an innovator and a technology pioneer. He has been awarded 28 US patents.

Mr Surace is a popular speaker on AI, robotics, automation and the future of jobs. and has given hundreds of talks on the topic including TEDx

Surace earned a B.S. in electrical engineering technology from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He now serves on the RIT Board of Trustees, was alumni of the year in 2011 and was inducted into the school’s Innovation Hall of Fame.

His wife Marita Surace died on February 5th, 2012. He married Erica Rogers on January 1, 2014. She is CEO of Silk Road Medical

At General Magic, Surace was the executive vice president of products and network services, led the development of the first large scale artificially intelligent voice user interface, and led the team that developed the OnStar Virtual Advisor for General Motors.” He also served as the chairman, CEO and president of WebKnight, Inc. (sold to Micrografx). Most recently, he became the CEO of Appvance, a developer of a DevOps QA platform for automated software testing/ Surace also held engineering and management positions at National Semiconductor, IBM and Seiko Epson.

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