Nokia has appointed TomTom executive Sean Fernback as president of HERE, a mapping and location intelligence business.
Sean Fernback joined Nokia in early 2014 from TomTom, where he was a senior vice president of Engineering & Product Development and a member of the management team.
Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri said the company is giving top priority for HERE business.
Nokia earlier in the day said that HERE achieved 12 percent growth in net sales from EUR 211 million in Q3 2013 to EUR 236 million in Q3 2014.
In Q3 2014, HERE sold map data licenses for the embedded navigation systems of 3.2 million new vehicles compared to 2.6 million vehicles in Q3 2013.
At TomTom, he was responsible for consumer map production and distribution for the consumer market, hardware development, manufacturing and software engineering.
Prior to joining TomTom in 2006, Sean served as chief technology officer of both TV Compass and Boardbug; chief information officer of Pogo, and other entrepreneurial positions.
