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Jørgen Behrens

Vice President and General Manager, Google Maps Automotive

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands · 1 connection

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Senior product executive with 28 years of experience in software, technology and telecoms with a focus on building and commercializing innovation in SaaS, geospatial content and smart devices, managing P&Ls up to €1bn and teams up to 3,000 FTEs in EMEA, US and APAC • Led product and ecosystem for the operating system instrumental in creating the smartphone from incipience to reaching 1/2bn installed base. • Led post-acquisition integration in a public technology company and subsequently managed a large-scale global engineering and operations organization. • Started a new business inside a large multinational, designed and built the world’s first medical grade wearable device, used in a clinically validated prevention programs for chronic disease. • Accountable for the market leading portfolio of geospatial SaaS, embedded software and content products in Automotive, Transport & Logistics. • Empowering leadership style, reducing ambiguity, setting clear objectives and removing obstacles allowing leaders and their teams to deliver results. Values integrity, clarity and results orientation. • Strategic thinker with a strong drive to bring strategies into execution, building products, m

Experience

Vice President and General Manager, Google Maps AutomotiveGoogle
Aug 2022
Senior Vice President, Chief Product OfficerHERE Technologies
Jan 2020 to Jan 2022
Senior Vice President, Head of Application SoftwareHERE Technologies
Jan 2018 to Jan 2020
Senior Vice President, General Manager and Business Leader, Personal Health SolutionsPhilips
Jan 2015 to Jan 2018
Senior Vice President, Innovation Leader, Personal Health SolutionsPhilips
Jan 2014 to Jan 2015
General Manager Wearable Sensor TechnologiesPhilips
Jan 2013 to Jan 2014
Strategic Advisor to the Chief Strategy and Innovation OfficerPhilips
Jan 2013 to Jan 2013
Supervisory Board (Non-Exec)Cyclomedia
Jan 2012 to Jan 2015
EVP Engineering & Content OperationsTomTom
Jan 2009 to Jan 2012
VP Symbian SoftwareNokia
Jan 2009 to Jan 2009
Executive Vice President, Chief Product & Marketing OfficerSymbian
Jan 2005 to Jan 2008
Vice President, Product Management and StrategySymbian
Jan 2003 to Jan 2005

Education

Nyenrode Business University
Bachelors, Business Administration (B.B.A.)
1989 to 1992
Nyenrode Business University
Masters / drs., Business Administration
1992 to 1993