Kevin Surace
Kevin Surace (born July 12, 1962) is an American technology innovator, speaker, Broadway & Film producer and entrepreneur. He is the CTO of Appvance, creator of an Generative AI software QA platform. He was Inc. Magazine’s 2009 entrepreneur of the Year. He is the inventor of QuietRock Soundproof Drywall Planet Forward, CNBC and the World Economic Forum have recognized Surace as an innovator and a technology pioneer. He has been awarded 93 patents worldwide. Surace is a speaker on AI, Generative AI, robotics, automation and the future of work and has given hundreds of talks on the topic including TEDx. KevinSurace.com Biography Surace earned a B.S. in electrical engineering technology from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He serves on the RIT Board of Trustees, was alumni of the year in 2011, outstanding alumnus in 2019 and was inducted into the school’s Innovation Hall of Fame. His wife Marita Surace died on February 5, 2012. He married Erica Rogers on January 1, 2014. She is the CEO of Silk Road Medical. Career 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