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Meet our global leadership team

Leadership Team

Mike Nefkens, CEO, HERE Technologies

Mike Nefkens

Chief Executive Officer

Mike Nefkens is the Chief Executive Officer of HERE Technologies. He brings decades of experience and leadership across technology, IT, software, cloud services, IOT, and automotive. HERE CEO as of January 2024, he is responsible for leading HERE’s business, strategic direction, people, and customer ecosystem ahead.
Denise Doyle

Denise Doyle

EVP, Chief Product Officer

Denise’s two-plus decades at HERE have demonstrated her deep business, strategic and commercial acumen working in senior executive roles. As CPO, her responsibilities include product and technology strategy, data acquisition, licensing, corporate strategy and development, security and privacy, IT, and sustainability.
Adeel Manzoor

Adeel Manzoor

EVP, Chief Operating Officer

Adeel oversees HERE's financial organization, quality assurance, governance, procurement, legal and compliance. He plays a pivotal role in executing HERE's strategic plans and commitment to operational excellence. Adeel joined HERE in 2022 as CFO, bringing decades of senior finance leadership experience.
Werner Buskermolen

Werner Buskermolen

EVP, Chief Human Resources Officer

Werner Buskermolen leads the Human Resources team at HERE Technologies. With more than 20 years of HR experience to draw upon, he acts as a senior advisor on all people-related and organizational matters to ensure the talent agenda aligns with the company’s vision in a best-in-class global, inclusive workplace.
Damandeep Kochhar

Damandeep Kochhar

EVP, Chief Platform & Technology Officer

Damandeep Kochhar is EVP, Chief Platform & Technology Officer at HERE Technologies. In his role, he leads the company’s core engineering activities, including the development and operation of our highly automated mapping system for creating, updating and publishing map content.
David Kenzer

David Kenzer

SVP, Chief Legal & Compliance Officer

David Kenzer is Chief Legal and Compliance Officer at HERE Technologies, responsible for all legal and regulatory matters for the company.
Jason Jameson

Jason Jameson

EVP, Chief Customer Officer

Jason joined HERE in June 2021 as Senior Vice President and General Manager for APAC, before becoming CCO in November 2023. With over 25 years of experience working in business software and cloud solutions, Jason possesses extensive proficiency in managing sales and driving customer success.

HERE Supervisory Board

Pekka Ala-Pietilä

Pekka Ala-Pietilä

Board Chairman

Mr. Ala-Pietilä has served as Chairman of the HERE Supervisory Board since February 2021. Mr Ala-Pietilä is also the Chairman of the Board of packaging company Huhtamäki and learning company Sanoma.
Rainer Feurer

Dr. Rainer Feurer

Board Member

Dr. Rainer Feurer, Senior Vice President, Corporate Investments at BMW Group. Since joining BMW Group in 1998, Dr. Feurer has held various strategic planning positions and was deeply involved in the strategic set-up of the BMW Group in China.
Axel Dewitz

Axel Dewitz

Board Member

Mr. Axel Dewitz is vastly experienced across the automotive industry, currently holding the position of EVP and Head of Taxes, Customs and M&A at Audi Group.
Adine Grate

Adine Grate

Board Member

Ms. Adine Grate is a well-known and respected professional in the European investment community. She spent 13 years at Investor AB where she was an EVP and Executive Director on the Executive Board.
Alexander Nedinger - Supervisory Board Member

Alexander Nediger

Board Member

Alexander Nediger is Vice President Corporate Development at Mercedes-Benz Group AG, with global responsibility for M&A, Cooperation Management and Real Estate. Mr. Nediger has worked with Mercedes-Benz Group AG over 13 years in various positions.
Robert Siegel-Supervisory Board

Robert Siegel

Board Member

Robert Siegel is a Lecturer in Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has led primary research and written cases on, among others, Google, Charles Schwab, Daimler, Stripe, Roblox, Target, C3.ai, Softbank, Tableau, PayPal, Medium, Autodesk, Zuora, and Michelin.
Sanjay Brahmawar-Supervisory Board

Sanjay Brahmawar

Board Member

Sanjay Brahmawar is a distinguished technology executive, who heads Software AG as CEO. With over two decades of international experience, he has extensive software and Internet of Things expertise and leads the organization with a strong entrepreneurial approach.
Takahiro Fukai

Takahiro Fukai

Board Member

Takahiro Fukai is General Manager of Industry Value Chain DX Department at Mitsubishi Corporation (MC). In this role, he spearheads the development and deployment of innovative digital services.
Yasutaka Tadakoshi

Yasutaka Tadakoshi

Board Member

Mr. Yasutaka Tadakoshi is the Vice President of the Industrial Infrastructure Group, Alliance Department, and R&D Market Strategy Division at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT).

Industry Advisory Board

Ricky Hudi

Ricky Hudi

Founder & CEO, FMT/HERE Industry Advisory Board Chairman

Ricky Hudi is a mobility technology pioneer with great passion for innovation and 30 years of experience in the automotive and related tech industry. After holding various roles at BMW AG and AUDI AG he took over in January 2009 as Executive Vice President Development Electrics/Electronics AUDI AG.
Patrick Cheng

Patrick Cheng

CEO, NavInfo

As one of the founders of NavInfo, Patrick Cheng has experience in technology, marketing, sales and management through taking responsibility of various departments over the last 13 years.
Thomas Lantzsch

Thomas Lantzsch

Independent

Thomas Lantzsch is former SVP and General Manager of the Internet of Things (IoT) Group at Intel Corporation. He led the worldwide organization for Intel® architecture computing solutions across IoT market segments, including manufacturing, industrial, retail, transportation, smart buildings and homes, and aerospace.
Dr. Claudius Leibfritz

Dr. Claudius Leibfritz

Member of the Executive Committee, ADAC SE

Dr. Claudius Leibfritz chairs the ADAC insurance group as well as the assistance activities of ADAC, Europe’s largest mobility club with more than 20 million members. He also oversees strategy and business development.
Imran Sayeed

Imran Sayeed

Innovation & Digital Transformation Advisor, NTT DATA

Imran Sayeed is part of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation faculty at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he teaches Disruptive Technologies, New Business Models, Software and Internet Entrepreneurship, and Global Innovation in Large Companies.
Cham Zhong

Cham Zhong

VP & General Manager Map, Tencent Holdings Ltd.

Cham Zhong leads three departments at Tencent MIG (Mobile Internet Business Group): Browser Product, Map Platform Product and Smart Platform Product. He established the Wireless R&D Department in 2008, and in early 2009, he launched the browser project, which hatched the basis of the mobile phone QQ browser.
Stephan Durach

Stephan Durach

SVP, Connected Company Development, Technical Operations, BMW Group

After graduating in electrical engineering at the Technical University of Karlsruhe, Stephan Durach joined BMW Group in Munich in 1998.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Kropf

Prof. Dr. Kropf

President, Corporate Sector Research and Advance Engineering, Robert Bosch GmbH

Prof. Dr. Thomas Kropf is President of the Corporate Sector for Research and Advance engineering at Robert Bosch GmbH since July 2018. After pursuing an academic career in computer science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and a stint in Silicon Valley at Synopsys Inc., he joined Bosch in 1999.
Georges Massing

Georges Massing

VP, MB.OS Automated Driving, Powernet & E/E Integration, Mercedes-Benz AG

Georges Massing is the Vice President MB.OS Automated Driving, Powernet & E/E Integration at Mercedes-Benz AG. Previously, he was the Vice President for Digital Vehicle & Mobility after having joined the company as Director User Interaction & Software for the Mercedes-Benz vehicle portfolio in 2016.
Dr Riclef Schmidt-Chausen

Dr. Schmidt-Clausen

SVP, Domain Intelligent Cockpit & Body, CARIAD (Volkswagen Group)

Dr. Riclef Schmidt-Clausen is Senior Vice President at CARIAD (Volkswagen Group) – Domain Intelligent Cockpit & Body.