Prashant has worked in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors in a variety of roles and sectors. In the past decade, he provided the vision and worked to establish the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation and then managed all aspects of its operations as its first Director-General. He also led CCMEO through deep reductions in the early 2010s and then led its renewal and subsequent large scale successes in delivering the highly successful Federal Geospatial Platform (GeoDiscovery); the science and satellite renewal elements of the 2019 Radarsat Constellation Mission; and after two years of consultation and negotiation, the launch of Canada's Flood Hazard Information Mapping Program.
Since 2019, he has been working with a variety of private sector companies where is an investor and he continues to advise Canadian geospatial and space startups. He is the Board Chair of the Open Geospatial Consortium; a Board Member of Building Smart Canada, and Ottawa's Dave Smith Youth Treatment Centre.