Ernie Prabhakar

Ernie Prabhakar

A Geek's Favorite Marketing Person

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
  • OSI Board Observer at Open Source Initiative
  • Founder and Chief Philosophical Officer at RadicalCentrism.org
  • Open Source/Web 2.0 Product Manager at Apple
Education
  • California Institute of Technology
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Connections
496 connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

Ernie Prabhakar’s Summary

As a second-generation immigrant with experience in the nation's leading companies and schools, Dr. Ernie seeks to bring humor, insight, and rigor to help individuals and organizations find creative solutions to their most important problems.


Ernie Prabhakar’s Experience

  • OSI Board Observer

    Open Source Initiative

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    2006Present (2 years)

  • Founder and Chief Philosophical Officer

    RadicalCentrism.org

    (Non-Profit; Myself Only; Public Policy industry)

    July 2002Present (6 years 6 months)

    Responsible for defining the core philosophical beliefs and objectives for an emerging political and social movement, as well as instigating articles, activities and alliances to achieve those goals.

  • Open Source/Web 2.0 Product Manager

    Apple

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AAPL; Computer Software industry)

    June 1997Present (11 years 7 months)

    I am responsible for initiating, managing, and marketing Apple's Open Source strategy and UNIX positioning, helping establish Mac OS X as the most popular UNIX distribution and Apple as the highest-volume Open Source vendor. I am also working to shape Apple's involvement in Web 2.0, including Atom, iTunes podcasting, and JavaScript development.


Ernie Prabhakar’s Education

  • California Institute of Technology

    Ph.D., Physics, 19881995

    Activities and Societies:
    Caltech Christian Fellowship (IVCF), TACIT: Theatre Arts at Caltech, SPECTRE: The Caltech Science Fiction Club, Editor, Graduate Student Council Newsletter
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    S.B., Physics, 19841988

    Wrote and ran "Blame It on Rio" Assassin's Guild game.
    Third-place in the ESG Punning Bee in Jan 1987.

    Activities and Societies:
    United Christian Fellowship, Stained Glass (choir), MIT Science Fiction Society, Assassin's Guild, Athena Student Consultant, Musical Theather Guild

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