Career
He is the Chief Executive Officer of Appvance, creator of a DevOps Quaid-i-Azam platform. He was Incorporated. Magazine’s 2009 entrepreneur of the Year. He has served in top management positions for Serious Energy, General Magic, WebKnight, International Business Machines Corporation and National Semiconductor.
He currently serves on the boards of the Rochester Institute of Technology, Zeta Design/Build, WaterCity and TweetSecret.
Planet Forward, Consumer News and Business Channel and the World Economic Forum have recognized Surace as an innovator and a technology pioneer. He is also a keynote speaker for topics in clean technology and innovation.
He has been awarded 23 United States patents. Surace earned a Bachelor of Surgery in electrical engineering technology from the Rochester Institute of Technology.
At his alma mater, Surace serves on the Rochester Institute of Technology Board of Trustees, was alumni of the year in 2011 and was inducted into the school’s Innovation Hall of Fame.
She is Chief Executive Officer 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 voice user interface, and led the team that developed the OnStar Virtual Advisor for General Motors.” He also served as the chairman, Chief Executive Officer and president of WebKnight, Incorporated. (sold to Micrografx). Most recently, he became the Chief Executive Officer of Appvance, a developer of a DevOps Quaid-i-Azam platform for unified automated software testing.
Surace also held engineering and management positions at National Semiconductor, International Business Machines Corporation and Seiko Epson.
Surace co-founded Serious Energy, a cleantech company that uses disruptive technologies to reduce energy usage in buildings. Serious Energy’s product EcoRock (an eco-friendly drywall) earned a Best New Product award from Popular Science magazine. and was named the most innovative environmental product of the year by the Wall Street Journal.
He also launched the cloud-based procurement platform Perfect Commerce and serviced as its chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and president In 1992, Surace also co-founded Air Communications Incorporated., and became the company’s Chief Executive Officer and president
In 2010 he led Serious to replace all of the windows in the Empire State Building to reduce energy consumption.
Today, Surace is the Chief Executive Officer of Appvance, creator of a DevOps Quaid-i-Azam platform (unified test automation). He also sits on the boards of several companies. Surace was a regular pundit on TechTV"s Silicon Spin from 1998 to 2001.
Surace is active in the clean technology movement and in technology development.
He holds several patents in green technologies. He has authored articles on energy efficiency and the green economy.
In 2009, he delivered a TED talk on his patented eco-friendly drywall and the need to rethink basic materials in a sustainable light. He is quoted as saying, “ eight thousand gallons of gas to build one house.
… lieutenant’s like driving around the world six times.
We must change everything.”.