Former Lucasfilm CTO Richard Kerris takes over as head of webOS developer relations

HP’s having a blowout webOS developer event here in San Francisco to bookend its big product announcements from this morning, and it kicked things off with a personnel announcement — Richard Kerris is taking over as head of webOS developer relations. Don’t recognize the name? Richard was formerly the chief technology officer at Lucasfilm, where he was named one of Variety’s “Top 10 innovators to Watch,” and before that he was a senior director of developer relations for a little company called Apple. That’s quite a pedigree — and Richard told the crowd here that he views developers as his primary customers, so it’s clear he’ll be working hard to win their favor. That said, we think he’s got quite a challenge evangelizing developers to support a platform that won’t have compelling new products out for months — let’s all wish him luck. Former Lucasfilm CTO Richard Kerris takes over as head of webOS developer relations originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink