# Damandeep Kochhar

> Damandeep Kochhar is EVP at Chief Platform & Technology Officer. HERE Location Services on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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EVP, Chief Platform & Technology Officer.

Damandeep 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.

## What Damandeep builds

- [HERE Location Services](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/here-location-services.md), graded C, 58/100, in Maps, geocoding & 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 & Technology Officer, researched 2026-10-28.

## Works with

- [Denise Doyle](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/denise-doyle/), EVP, Chief Product Officer
- [Mike Nefkens](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/mike-nefkens/), Chief Executive Officer
- [Pekka Ala-Pietilä](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/pekka-ala-pietila/), Chairman of the Supervisory Board

## Backed by

- [Audi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/audi/)
- [Bosch Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bosch-ventures/)
- [BMW Group](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bmw-group/)
- [Continental](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/continental/)
- [Intel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/intel/)
- [Mitsubishi Corporation](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/mitsubishi-corporation/)
- [Mercedes-Benz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/mercedes-benz/)
- [NTT](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ntt/)
- [Pioneer Fund](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/pioneer-fund/)

## Questions

### Who is Damandeep Kochhar?

Damandeep 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.

### What does HERE Technologies make?

Anchor 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.

### Who has invested in HERE Technologies?

The sources our research read name Audi, Bosch Ventures, BMW Group, Continental, Intel, Mitsubishi Corporation, Mercedes-Benz, NTT and Pioneer Fund.

### How are Damandeep's tools graded?

HERE Location Services is graded C, 58 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.here.com/
- https://www.here.com/about
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navteq
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Technologies

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