Garmin today announced that effective January 1, 2013  the board of directors has appointed Clifton Pemble to the position of president and CEO, succeeding co-founder, Dr. Min Kao. Pemble, who joined Garmin in 1989 as one of the company’s first...

Richard Dennys, who abruptly departed from its Chief Marketing position at Qype after their acquisition by Yelp on October 25 (read here), joined Nokia Location and Commerce today as their Head of digital marketing. Dennys, a British national, has...

GPS maker TomTom yesterday announced the appointment of Gary Raucher as senior vice president marketing. He will be responsible for managing TomTom’s brand and all consumer-related marketing and communication activities globally and report to...

Global traffic information supplier INRIX today announced the election of John Connors, former CFO of Microsoft to its board of directors, as a new independent board member. Connors spent 16 years at Microsoft in various management positions...

Future of Nav the premier conference for GPS navigation is set to debut on Wednesday next week in Paris, gathering more than 120 participants coming from 18 countries. The high profile event will gather more than 40 board-level executives and many...

Scott Forstall, vice president in charge of Apple’s iOS Software “will be leaving Apple next year and will serve as an advisor to CEO Tim Cook in the interim,“ said the Cupertino-based company yesterday night in a press release. Forstall who joined...

TomTom today announced the appointment of Harald Bohn as vice president of automotive sales. Bohn joined from NAVTEQ where he was vice president of vehicle sales. Bohn started his automotive career in 1986 with technical roles at DEKRA and Saab. In...

Real-time traffic information provider Inrix has announced this week the recruitment of several executives in its team, both in the United States and Europe. Diane Irvine, the former CEO of online diamond retailer Blue Nile has joined the board of...

Didier Quillot, today joined speedcam warning provider Coyote as Executive Chairman. Quillot, aged 53, was between 2000 and 2006 CEO of Orange France, he then took the head at French media company Lagardère Active until November 2011. Quillt is...

Traffic information provider Inrix today announced the appointment of Andreas Hecht as vice president and general manager Automotive. Previously, Hecht was the Co-Founder and General Partner at Spot It Out – a LBS provider of travel guide...

As a result of Garmin’s acquisition of NAVIGON last summer, Egon Minar, the former CEO of NAVIGON, has left the company and has been replaced by Johannes Angenvoort, who was previously Executive Vice President of Development and who were at NAVIGON...