Eric Zelenka is a Senior Worldwide Product Line Marketing Manager at Apple Inc. Prior to working at Apple, Zelenka worked for StarNine Technologies, Quarterdeck Office Systems (now part of

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Corporation), DoubleClick, and Mandala Communications.

Background

In 1994 Zelenka started Macination Technologies to develop directory services and mail gateways for the

classic Mac OS Mac OS (originally System Software; retronym: Classic Mac OS) is the series of operating systems developed for the Macintosh family of personal computers by Apple Computer from 1984 to 2001, starting with System 1 and ending with Mac OS 9. The ...

. In June 1995, he joined StarNine Technologies in Berkeley, California. He was initially responsible for technical support for StarNine's Mail*Link gateways for Apple's

PowerTalk Apple Open Collaboration Environment (AOCE) is a collection of messaging-related technologies introduced for the Classic Mac OS in the early 1990s. It includes the PowerTalk mail engine, which is the primary client-side interface to the system, th ...

and PowerShare collaborative solutions,

MacHTTP MacHTTP is a webserver designed to run on the classic Mac OS versions 7.x through 9.x. It was written by software developer Chuck Shotton and was originally shareware; it dates from 1993; it is now available in source code form from SourceForg ...

, and

WebSTAR WebSTAR was a web server application for the classic Mac OS. It supported the common gateway interface (CGI) and its own AppleEvents-based W*API for plug-in support, as well as SSL and similar technologies used in most early web servers. Unlike m ...

. In 1996 he took the role of Product Manager and led the company's development of WebSTAR versions 2, 3 and 4. In July 2000, he joined Apple as Product Line Manager for Mac OS X Worldwide Product Marketing. Zelenka has since worked on the initial public beta of Mac OS X, the release of Mac OS X Server, and various hardware and software initiatives including Xserve,

Xsan Xsan () is Apple Inc.'s storage area network (SAN) or clustered file system for macOS. Xsan enables multiple Mac desktop and Xserve systems to access shared block storage over a Fibre Channel network. With the Xsan file system installed, these ...

, and Apple Remote Desktop. Zelenka currently manages Worldwide Product Marketing for Core OS software used by iOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS. He manages Core OS technologies including UNIX, networking, IPv6, network file services,

Mobile Device Management Mobile device management (MDM) is the administration of mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablet computers, and laptops. MDM is usually implemented with the use of a third-party product that has management features for particular vendors of m ...

, Caching Server, and

Apple File System Apple File System (APFS) is a Proprietary software, proprietary file system developed and deployed by Apple Inc. for macOS macOS Sierra, Sierra (10.12.4) and later, iOS iOS 10 , 10.3 and later, tvOS 10.2 and later, watchOS 3.2 and later, and ...

Notable mentions

At the 2004

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Steve Jobs Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American entrepreneur, industrial designer, media proprietor, and investor. He was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple; the chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar; a ...

mentioned Eric as having participated in the world's first in-air video conference using

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. Eric Zelenka initiated the video conference while returning to San Francisco from Munich, using

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’s then-new high-speed wireless service.

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