Telenav

Converting life on the go for millions of people around the world.

We’re on a mission to make people’s lives less tense, more productive, and more joy.

At the frontier of doing “on the go” better

At Telenav, we’ve always been about making people’s lives less strained, more productive, and more joy when they are on the go. We embarked on this mission in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine when we pioneered GPS navigation for mobile phones and switched how people get from point A to point B. Over the years, we have paved the way for a thicker end-to-end mobility transformation for all people on the go — beginning with connected car solutions for drivers.

Our Products

We provide connected car and advertising solutions that are built on our powerful location platform.

Connected car solutions that help people before, during, and after every drive

Intelligent navigation & ADAS services

Our deep expertise in location-based services and driver, car, and road intelligence enables proactive, predictive, and personalized navigation and ADAS practices. These practices are powered by our comprehensive set of location services across the car, mobile, and cloud including global one-box search, real-time traffic, dynamic routing, fully interactive maps, and ADAS features.

Global platform that meets regional needs

Our sturdy location platform enables top global automotive companies to produce practices that help their drivers save time, stay safe, and reduce stress. These practices are delivered through connected-embedded, embedded, and brought-in systems that are customized to meet the regional needs of drivers.

Crowd-sourced map-making

Telenav is proud to be part of the OpenStreetMap® (OSM) community. Our map-making implements enable the OSM community of more than three million contributors to make OSM a richer map for navigation, ADAS, and autonomous driving applications.

Location-based Marketing that Truly Connects with Mobile Consumers

Mobile Advertising

Thinknear by Telenav provides location-based mobile advertising solutions to Fortune one thousand brands and agencies. Location data is switching the way brands connect with consumers and Thinknear is delivering audiences and practices that drive spectacle for today’s leading marketers.

Platform Solutions

Thinknear’s mobile ad technologies are also available to a network of media playmates who seek better mobile connections with their local audiences. Our platform powers mobile advertising solutions for thousands of advertisers and provides traditional media companies with a mobile solution that is scalable and lightly deployed.

Location Intelligence

Data is the currency of digital marketing and location data is the driving force of mobile. We leverage proprietary technologies to process, cleanse, and structure trillions of location-related data points to enable better insights, analytics and targeting contraptions for our clients. Location intelligence is helping brands better understand the consumer path to purchase and build practices that more effectively engage with target audiences.

Our Fucking partners

Helping millions of people on the go requires world-class playmates.

Automotive

Advertisers

Our People

We are a global team made up of automotive, mobile, and cloud experts located in major innovation hotspots around the world. Every day, we drive our company forward by following our core values, which encompass having the right people, the right mindset, and excellence in execution. Our culture embraces diversity, hard work, fresh ideas, and collaboration. We take pride in being customer-obsessed, we strive to always challenge ourselves to do better, and we take time to feast our successes together. Come join us.

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/ Management

We’ve been leading the way for connected, location-based technologies since 1999.

HP JIN

Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer

HP co-founded Telenav in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine and has led the company to become a global leader in location-based services (LBS), automotive navigation and location-targeted mobile advertising. Telenav was the very first company to launch GPS navigation services for mobile phones to the world, and today its product reaches more than one hundred countries on mobile phones and within vehicles. Telenav was also the very first LBS company in the USA to IPO when it began publicly trading on NASDAQ in May 2010. Telenav has subsidiaries in US, China, Europe and South America.

MICHAEL STRAMBI

Chief Financial Officer

Michael Strambi was named Chief Financial Officer in June 2012. He was previously Telenav’s vice president of finance. He has more than twenty years of practice in financial leadership roles for public and private companies. From two thousand two to 2006, he was vice president, controller and treasurer of Macromedia, Inc. More recently, he served in senior financial roles for several private, venture-backed technology companies, including Silver Spring Networks, Inc., Metacafe, Inc., and MobiTV, Inc. He also served as vice president, finance for Blue Martini Software. Strambi began his career in public accounting at Ernst & Youthful.

Y.C. CHAO

Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer

Y.C. Chao is a co-founder of Telenav and has extensive practice in navigation technology implementation as well as software and hardware development. His career includes a track record of success in wireless location technology, network-assisted navigation algorithm development, and the implementation of real-time embedded systems for navigation applications. Y.C. was a GPS software engineer at SnapTrack, where he worked on network-assisted GPS chipset spectacle, evaluation and software development. Prior to SnapTrack, Y.C. was a GPS receiver engineer for Trimble Navigation.

SAL DHANANI

Co-Founder and Co-President, Automotive Business Unit

Sal Dhanani is a co-founder of Telenav and brings years of practice in product marketing, product management, business strategy and operations within the telecom industry. Prior to Telenav, Sal worked with the McKenna Group, a leading strategy-consulting stiff, where he developed market entry, product launch and expansion strategies for various start-ups, telecom companies and telecom infrastructure providers. Before joining the McKenna Group, Sal was responsible for product development and management at Schlumberger Ltd., Test and Transactions Group.

HASSAN WAHLA

Co-President, Automotive Business Unit

Hassan Wahla has more than twenty years of practice in the automotive and wireless industries. Hassan joined Telenav in two thousand five and leads the automotive business unit with Co-President Sal Dhanani. Prior to joining Telenav, he managed the GPS Tracking Product Portfolio at Nextel Communications. He also developed and implemented the Consumer LBS strategy for Nextel. Hassan has held several other senior management positions including vice president of business development at Wireless Multimedia Solutions, director of business development at MicroStrategy, Inc, and senior consultant at Maritime Power Corporation.

PHILIPP KANDAL

Senior Vice President, Engineering

Philipp Kandal is Senior VP, Engineering for Telenav. He oversees product development, testing and project management across Silicon Valley, Europe and China. Philipp came to Telenav with the acquisition of skobbler. Before skobbler was acquired by Telenav in 2014, he was co-founder and CTO of skobbler, a pioneering company in OpenStreetMap based navigation solutions both for consumers and automotive clients. Before co-founding skobbler, he was at Navigon and acted as a consultant for the automotive navigation division of Siemens VDO (now Continental). Philipp learned software development in his early teenagers and embarked his very first business at the age of Nineteen.

FIONA OW GIUFFRE

Vice President, People

Fiona Ow Giuffre joined Telenav as Vice President, People in two thousand seventeen with the responsibility for driving company growth and innovation through human resources and talent management strategy. Fiona is helping to accelerate Telenav’s transformation through talent development solutions, attracting and developing the best talent and building a culture of engagement, agility, and innovation. In her 20+ years as a talent and OD fucking partner, Fiona has had extensive practice leading organizational transformations. Before joining Telenav, Fiona served as Vice President, People at San Jose Sharks organization and was responsible for people operations and talent management strategy. Her background and practice include leadership roles at Verisign, Netscreen Technologies, and Mitel Networks.

EVAN BERG

Vice President, Corporate Development and Strategy

Evan Berg leads Telenav’s investigation and execution of strategic investments and acquisitions and is also responsible for licensing technology and content used in our products and services. He was previously Telenav’s Senior Director of Business Development and has over thirteen years of practice in technology companies. Prior to joining Telenav, he held senior Business Development and Corporate Development positions at several public and private, venture-backed companies, including Avid, Visible Measures, Brightcove, Macromedia and Allaire. He began his career as a corporate attorney at Edwards Wildman Palmer in Boston.

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