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  "markdown": "Chairman of the Supervisory Board.\n\nPekka Ala-Pietilä has chaired the HERE Supervisory Board since February 2021. He also chairs the Supervisory Board of SAP and the Board of Directors of Sanoma Corporation.\n\n## What Pekka 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. Chairman of the Supervisory Board, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Damandeep Kochhar](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/damandeep-kochhar/), EVP, Chief Platform \u0026 Technology Officer\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\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 Pekka Ala-Pietilä?\n\nPekka Ala-Pietilä has chaired the HERE Supervisory Board since February 2021. He also chairs the Supervisory Board of SAP and the Board of Directors of Sanoma Corporation.\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 Pekka'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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