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  "markdown": "EVP, Chief Platform \u0026 Technology Officer.\n\nDamandeep Kochhar is Chief Platform and Technology Officer of HERE Technologies. He leads the company's core engineering, including the development and running of the automated mapping system that creates, updates and publishes its map content.\n\n## What Damandeep builds\n\n- [HERE Location Services](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/here-location-services.md), graded C, 58/100, in Maps, geocoding \u0026 places. HERE Technologies' REST APIs for geocoding, place search, routing, matrix and isoline routing, traffic, transit and map tiles, called with an API key or OAuth token. A hosted MCP server, HERE Location Reasoning, exposes 13 of these operations as tools. EVP, Chief Platform \u0026 Technology Officer, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Denise Doyle](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/denise-doyle/), EVP, Chief Product Officer\n- [Mike Nefkens](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/mike-nefkens/), Chief Executive Officer\n- [Pekka Ala-Pietilä](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/pekka-ala-pietila/), Chairman of the Supervisory Board\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Audi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/audi/)\n- [Bosch Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bosch-ventures/)\n- [BMW Group](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bmw-group/)\n- [Continental](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/continental/)\n- [Intel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/intel/)\n- [Mitsubishi Corporation](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/mitsubishi-corporation/)\n- [Mercedes-Benz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/mercedes-benz/)\n- [NTT](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ntt/)\n- [Pioneer Fund](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/pioneer-fund/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Damandeep Kochhar?\n\nDamandeep Kochhar is Chief Platform and Technology Officer of HERE Technologies. He leads the company's core engineering, including the development and running of the automated mapping system that creates, updates and publishes its map content.\n\n### What does HERE Technologies make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists HERE Location Services from HERE Technologies. HERE Technologies' REST APIs for geocoding, place search, routing, matrix and isoline routing, traffic, transit and map tiles, called with an API key or OAuth token. A hosted MCP server, HERE Location Reasoning, exposes 13 of these operations as tools.\n\n### Who has invested in HERE Technologies?\n\nThe sources our research read name Audi, Bosch Ventures, BMW Group, Continental, Intel, Mitsubishi Corporation, Mercedes-Benz, NTT and Pioneer Fund.\n\n### How are Damandeep's tools graded?\n\nHERE Location Services is graded C, 58 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.here.com/\n- https://www.here.com/about\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navteq\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Technologies\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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