The IHO Team

Dr. Prasad Ram

Dr. Prasad Bhaarat Ram is a Computer Science Engr. from IIT (Bombay, India) and a Master's and Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Prasad is currently in San Jose California and is a Director (Engineering) at Google Inc, working on a revolutionary project on ‘education’.

Until recently Prasad was heading the R&D centre of Google (India). He was responsible for launching products such as Orkut, Google Finance, MapMaker, Google Mobile, Google News, etc. Prior to joining Google, he was the Chief Technology Officer at ‘Yahoo!’ (India) where he launched a number of products including HotJobs, Podcasts and Audio Search.

Prasad is married to Sumati & has 3 bright children.

Social Responsibility: Prasad has traveled across rural India and works with NGOs such as SEWA, PRS, and RTI-India to help improve their operations and increase their impact through information transparency.

With IHO: Prasad guides Indian Health Organisation in spreading its reach & increasing the focus on preventive health in India via use of technology. He works closely with the team to bring in more ‘effectiveness’ to the entire business via his vast & rich expertise on use of technology and the internet as enablers.
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