I think he goes by Pete ;)

Edit: While I'm here, might as well link to the Simple Made Easy talk by Rich Hickey. The other thing (aside from inventing Clojure) that gave him prophet-like status in the community.

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

Rich Hickey is one of the rare breed of thinkers in the programming world whose ideas have great relevance even if you're not interested in the language he invented.