# Pekka Ala-Pietilä (slim)

> Pekka Ala-Pietilä is chairman of the Supervisory Board. HERE Location Services on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Chairman of the Supervisory Board.

Pekka 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.

## What Pekka 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. Chairman of the Supervisory Board, researched 2026-10-28.

## Works with

- [Damandeep Kochhar](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/damandeep-kochhar/), EVP, Chief Platform & Technology Officer
- [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

## 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 Pekka Ala-Pietilä?

Pekka 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.

### What does HERE Technologies make?

Anchor Terminal lists HERE Location Services from HERE Technologies.

### 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 Pekka'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

These 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.