Appvance

Leadership Team

We are a team of innovators, technologists, business leaders, and change agents working to help our customers accelerate their digital transformation initiatives. Meet the leadership team that manages our dynamic staff at our three global offices.

Meet The

Team

AndreLiao
Andre Liao

CEO

Kevin Surace
Kevin Surace

Chairman & CTO

KevinParker
Kevin Parker

VP, Product

SergiyBruksha
Sergiy Bruksha

VP, Engineering

Dan Bannoura

VP, Customer Success

Madhu Laxmanrao

VP, Sales

AmyHawman
Amy Hawman

Sr. Director, Marketing

Matthew Kwong

Controller

Kevin Surace
Kevin Surace

Chairman & CTO

KevinParker
Kevin Parker

VP, Product

SergiyBruksha
Sergiy Bruksha

VP, Engineering

Dan Bannoura

VP, Customer Success

Madhu Laxmanrao

VP, Sales

AmyHawman
Amy Hawman

Sr. Director, Marketing

Matthew Kwong

Controller

Board of

Directors

Kevin Surace
Kevin Surace

Chairman & CTO

NoahDoyle
Noah Doyle

Managing Director, Javelin Venture Partners

KevinKern
Kevin Kern

Enterprise Software Leader

KareemElSawy
Kareem El Sawy

Partner, Arrowroot Capital

AndrewDeYoung
Andrew DeYoung

Vice President, Kayne Anderson

Kurt-Lee
Kurt Lee

CEO, TRI HoldCo, Inc.

Kevin Surace
Kevin Surace

Chairman & CTO

NoahDoyle
Noah Doyle

Managing Director, Javelin Venture Partners

KevinKern
Kevin Kern

Enterprise Software Leader

KareemElSawy
Kareem El Sawy

Partner, Arrowroot Capital

AndrewDeYoung
Andrew DeYoung

Vice President, Kayne Anderson

Kurt-Lee
Kurt Lee

CEO, TRI HoldCo, Inc.

AndreLiao
Andre Liao

CEO

Andre started his hi-tech career at Intel and is an entrepreneurial executive with 22 years of global sales leadership and management experience. Prior to joining Appvance, Andre served as VP & GM of Americas for intive and helped drive the company’s rapid revenue growth from $20M to $100M in four years. Additionally, he held leadership roles at Findables, Star, NeoMagic, Sapphire Communications and liveMetro. Andre earned an MBA from the Marshall School of Business at USC and a BA in Economics from UC Santa Cruz.

Kevin Surace

Chairman & CTO

Kevin is a highly lauded entrepreneur and innovator.
He’s been awarded 93 worldwide patents, and was Inc. Magazine Entrepreneur of the Year, CNBC Innovator of the Decade, a Davos World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer, and inducted into the RIT Innovation Hall of Fame. Kevin has held leadership roles with Serious Energy, Perfect Commerce, CommerceNet and General Magic and is credited with pioneering work on AI virtual assistants, smartphones, QuietRock and the Empire State Building windows energy retrofit.

KevinParker
Kevin Parker

Vice President, Product

Kevin is a 30-year industry veteran and holder of four technology patents. Over the past several years, he has been crossing the globe working closely with analysts, the press, customers, partners, and employees to exchange ideas about industry direction and business issues. His specialties include DevOps, Agile Methods, Application Lifecycle Management, Release Management, Business Process Automation, Software Change and Configuration Management, Information Engineering, and Industry Best Practices.

SergiyBruksha
Sergiy Bruskha

Vice President, Engineering

Sergiy brings over 25 years of software development experience in start-up, growth, and mature companies, with half of that time spent in leadership roles. He blends strong technical skills to scale SaaS and analytics product environments with enthusiasm for building strong teams.
Prior to joining Appvance, Sergiy served as VP of Engineering at Talix and Content Analytics. As Head of Engineering, QA and DevOps, he led an organization of 70+ engineers working globally.

DanBannoura
Daniel Bannoura

Vice President, Customer Success

Dan’s 25 years of experience in customer success, account management, professional services, and program management is high-impact for Appvance customers. His prior roles in customer success at UIPath and Automation Anywhere, as well as other entrepreneurial positions, help him translate the value that AIQ provides into realized ROI for our customers.

Madhu Laxmanrao

Vice President, Sales

Madhu brings over 25 years of sales, operations, and account manaagement experience to the Appvance team. Prior to joining Appvance, Madhu held sales leadership roles at Lambda Test and HeadSpin, as well as serving as a Client Partner at Wipro.

AmyHawman
Amy Hawman

Sr. Director, Marketing

Amy is a seasoned technology marketer, bringing over 25 years experience in designing new marketing programs for SaaS, enterprise software, IoT / AI and Machine Learning. She specializes in building marketing infrastructure, capabilities and teams at early-stage software companies, where she has built lead-generation engines, honed messaging and key stories, and implemented tools and programs to support growth objectives.

MatthewKwong
Matthew Kwong

Controller

Matt joins Appvance with over a decade of accounting and startup finance experience. His strong professional foundation as a CPA at PwC has been the jumping-off point for his fast growth as a technology finance leader. At Appvance, he is responsible for all finance and accounting operations and processes.

NoahDoyle
Noah Doyle

Managing Director, Javelin Venture Partners

Prior to forming Javelin Venture Partners, Noah served as an angel inestor, supporting over a dozen startups including Keyhole (acquired by Google), Cantametrix (Gracenote), Amae Software (Verint), Nuvon, Ritter Natural Sciences, GET IT Mobile and Magnacash (Yaga). He holds MBA and BA Economics degrees, as well as certificates in Management of Technology and Global Management, from the University of California, Berkeley. Noah’s board memberships include Appvance, Bernoulli Health, Correlated Magnetics, Estimote, Nexenta, Pixalate, and Vacatia.

KevinKern
Kevin Kern

Enterprise Software Leader

Kevin Kern is CEO of WaterSmart Software, and a board member of iWave Information Systems and GoWall, in addition to Appvance.ai. Previously, he held senior leadership positions with Innotas, a leading provider of IT Portfolio Management systems, including as CEO from 2010 through 2016. Kevin also spent 13 years in sales and sales management with Oracle.

He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley with a BA in Political Science.

KareemElSawy
Kareem El Sawy

Partner, Arrowroot Capital

As a founding General Partner at Arrowroot Capital, Kareem is responsible for overseeing investment professionals & operating partners, qualifying deals, conducting due diligence, executing transactions, and monitoring portfolio companies.

Prior to Arrowroot, Kareem was at OpenGate Capital in Los Angeles, a global private equity firm, where he was on the M&A team for North and Latin America. He was named to GrowthCap’s Top 40 Under 40 Growth Investors in 2020.

AndrewDeYoung
Andrew DeYoung

Vice President, Kayne Anderson

Andrew is Director of Business Development and Operations for Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors’ growth equity activities. He works closely with the partners overseeing and managing fundraising processes and business development efforts at both the fund and individual portfolio companies. He is involved in identifying and analyzing investment opportunities, monitoring portfolio companies, and board oversight with select companies. He supports Kayne NewRoad Ventures Fund and monitors Kayne’s earlier stage growth companies.

Kurt-Lee
Kurt Lee

CEO, TRI HoldCo, Inc.

Kurt Lee is the CEO of TRI HoldCo, Inc. and is responsible for strategic investing of its excess Capital.  Kurt sits on several boards and is a seasoned financial professional with over 30 years of experience.