Date started current role: January 2019
Location: Berlin
Giovanni Lanfranchi is Senior Vice President Development and CTO at HERE Technologies, the location data and technology platform. He is steering HERE Technologies into the next generation of location-based services based on platform-enabled applications and solutions in areas such as autonomous driving, transport & logistics, urban mobility, leveraging blockchain and AI/ML. Lanfranchi joined HERE Technologies from IBM in 2018, where he served as Vice President Global Technology Services and Head of WW Service Delivery Architecture & Technology, in charge of the overall IBM Services Platform with Watson.
What was your first job? I started my career as an engineer working in the CAD/CAM (Computer-Aided Design/Manufacturing) area for various companies in the automotive and aerospace space. I soon realised it was more fun to build CAD/CAM software directly rather than just using it, so I moved into software development.