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Full Name

K. Venkatesh Prasad

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Ford Motor Company

Bio

K. Venkatesh Prasad is Ford’s “What’s Next” guy, responsible for fostering global cross-functional innovation at Ford. Before joining Ford Motor Company in 1996, Prasad worked at Ricoh Innovations in Menlo Park, California, at Caltech and at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

At Ford, Prasad imagined the vehicle as a software platform where features and services could be beamed in from the outside – without incremental built-in hardware. That revolutionary mind-set led to the development of Ford SYNC. Software-based, the voice-activated SYNC system allows Ford and Lincoln vehicle owners to seamlessly connect to their cellphone, MP3 players and a host of other features and services in and through their vehicle – hands-free.

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