Seasoned Manager and Start-Up Executive to Lead Engineering for Contech Innovator
ALICE Technologies announced that it has hired Jan Surovec as VP of Engineering. ALICE Technologies’ construction simulation and optimization platform helps general contractors worldwide to leverage the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to plan, bid and build their large-scale infrastructure and commercial projects more efficiently.
Surovec joins ALICE with more than 17 years of engineering experience. Before joining ALICE, he was co-founder and general manager of research and development at Sapho, a startup that developed “micro apps” for legacy software so that workers could use them as they would more modern applications: in the cloud, on mobile and more. At Sapho, Surovec built and managed a team that scaled to more than 60 engineers. The company was acquired by Citrix in 2018, and Surovec then joined Citrix to handle the integration of people and technology. Prior to Sapho, Surovec was the founder of DocFillet, a virtual data room service that was acquired by Sapho, as well as the founder of Cloudia, a web content and CMS platform.
“Jan is a seasoned manager of fast-growing engineering teams, as well as a successful serial entrepreneur,” said ALICE founder and CEO René Morkos. “We’ve hit an inflection point in 2021, and Jan is precisely the person we need to help us build and run our engineering team as ALICE continues to scale rapidly.”
