[2] Prasad is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer belonging to 1966 batch of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

He held several important posts in the center and state including media advisor to former Indian prime minister P. V. Narasimha Rao, executive officer (EO) of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, and Director General of Dr. Marri Channa Reddy Human Resource Development Institute of Telangana.

[5] Prasad was born on 22 August 1941 in Gudur in Nellore district into a Telugu-speaking Deshastha Madhva Brahmin family.

[6] His father Patri Krishna Rao was a head master of a school and his mother Subhadra Devi was a Housewife.

Prasad has religiously visited major Hindu temples when he was an IAS officer and also during the latter part of his life; for instance, when he was serving as the EO of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams he experienced many miracles of Lord Venkateshwara.