MapmyIndia’s Rakesh Verma
declared
‘World’s GPS Businessman of Year 2007’
MapmyIndia was the only Indian company nominated
among
world leaders like Nokia, TomTom, SiRF, Tele Atlas
"Digital maps are scarce assets and Mr. Ve=
rma
has developed one of these assets for
a country that has the second biggest population in the world.” – GPSBusinessNews.com
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New Delhi, December 21, 2007: Rakesh Verma, MD=
, MapmyIndia has been declared as
‘World’s GPS Businessman of Year 2007’ by
GPSBusinessNews.com, the leading online media providing world-wide business
news on the fast-moving consumer GPS industry. MapmyIndia was the only Indi=
an
company in the list of nominees that included industry leaders like Nokia,
TomTom, Tele Atlas, SiRF and Nav N Go. Rakesh has been chosen by the world
community for driving the navigation industry in India by introducing innovati=
ve
navigation products on the internet, mobile phone and in-car space. <=
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“This
award is recognition of India’s
importance in the global GPS market. With favourable economic conditions and
growth in purchasing power, Indian consumers are a force to reckon with. The
next couple of years will only see increase in adoption of GPS-based naviga=
tion
devices and services. MapmyIndia has taken the lead in this market and will=
continue
providing comprehensive and high quality maps to drive this industry,”
says Rakesh Verma, MD, MapmyIndia.
Under
Rakesh’s guidance, MapmyIndia has built the most comprehensive and
accurate digital maps of India,
to bring GPS navigation and location based services to the mass consumer
market. MapmyIndia is partnering with leading players– automobile
companies, handset and PND manufacturers, software providers, mobile operat=
ors,
internet portals and retail and distribution networks of cars, car accessor=
ies
and consumer electronic products. MapmyIndia’s pioneering effor=
ts
in this space will see India
become one of the largest world-wide consumer markets for navigation in the
next two years.
List
of Illustrious Nominees
·
Michael
Halbherr, Head of location-based experience, Nokia
·
Harold God=
dijn,
CEO, TomTom
·
Alain De T=
aeye,
CEO, Tele Atlas
·
Kanwar Cha=
dha,
founder and VP of marketing, SiRF
·
Nelson Cha=
n,
CEO, Magellan
·
Walt Doyle=
, CEO,
uLocate
· =
Bryan Mistele, CEO, INRIX
· =
Leon van de Pas, CEO, Nav N Go
·
Thomas Sei=
ler,
CEO, u-blox
Profile of Rakesh Verma
Rakesh
obtained a Bachelors of Engineering (Mechanical) from BITS Pilani,
India in 1972, and an =
MBA
from Eastern Washington Univer=
sity,
USA in 19=
79.
Rakesh
has over 30 years of wide operations and management experience in industry,=
12
of which have been with leading companies in the United States, such as General
Motors. At GM, Rakesh worked on the pioneering Saturn car project, where
billions of dollars were infused to build a modern car company from scratch=
.
In
1990, Rakesh relinquished his settled career and lifestyle in the US to pursue his dream of bringing innovat=
ive
solutions to India
and started his entrepreneurial venture, CE Info Systems. Back in the year
1995, when the world had just started understanding the value of digital ma=
ps,
Rakesh had a vision and desire to create such maps for All India.
Armed
with this foresight and desire to participate in India’s
development, Rakesh led CE Info’s pioneering effort in creating a
complete digital map of India,
all from scratch. It was his perseverance and passion that resulted in the
creation of MapmyIndia maps, the most accurate and comprehensive maps for t=
he
country. CE Info is now the leading navigable map and GIS solutions provider
for India, having empowered over 500 leading enterprise and government
customers with GIS-based business intelligence, as well as making available=
to
millions of consumers the power of maps on the internet, mobile and in-car
space.
Rakesh’s
unparalleled contribution to the industry brought MapmyIndia into the limel=
ight
when it was shortlisted by NASSCOM for IT Innovation India in 2004. And now=
, he
is internationally acclaimed in the industry as the ‘GPS Businessman =
of
the year 2007’
For photos visit: http://www.wfc.in/map=
myindia/mapmyindia.html
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