Hi, I'm Philipp, I mostly travel between Singapore, San Francisco, Cluj (Romania) and Berlin and I really love the cities. In Berlin I experienced some of the best parties ever and in Romania I like the up-beat attitude people have their in developing the country and moving ahead. I am enjoying good cocktails and fun evenings with friends. I was born 1982 in Tettnang, Baden Württemberg (Germany). I'm German with strong roots in Romania. I'm currently living in Singapore.
Chronology
2023 - today Chief Product Officer - Grab Inc. (Singapore, SIN)
2019 - 2023 Head of GEO - Grab Inc. (Singapore, SIN)
2017 - 2019 Senior VP Engineering - Telenav Inc. (Santa Clara, USA)
2016 - today Once a year: «Mobility case study» - University of Oxford (Oxford, Great Britain)
2014 - today Co-Founder, Moderator and Chairman - Techsylvania Conference (Cluj, Romania)
2018 Lecturer on «Building international teams» - Stanford University (Stanford, USA)
2017 Founding Member - KartaView (kartaview.org) (formerly OpenStreetCam)
2014 - 2017 General Manager EU - Telenav Inc. (Cluj, Romania)
2014 Advisor / Mentor for Startups - The World Bank (Washington D.C., USA)
2014 Sale of Skobbler GmbH to Telenav Inc. (Sunnyvale, USA)
2008 - 2014 CTO / Co-Founder - Skobbler GmbH (Berlin, Germany)
2005 Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Global e-Management - University of Cologne (Köln, Germany), NHH Norwegian School of Economics (Bergen, Norway), UDEM Universidad de Monterrey (Monterrey, Mexico)
2002 - 2004 My first startup where we developed Video-on-Demand software - xod GmbH (Köln, Germany)
Mentoring / Supporting Entrepreneurs
Start-up Investments
Patents
2021 « Server computer and method for verifying a location of a user device. GRABTAXI HOLDINGS PTE. LTD. » 10202103005U Pending
2021 « Method and system for gathering image training date for a machine learning model. GRABTAXI HOLDINGS PTE. LTD. » 10202106802U Pending
2013 « System and method for warning a driver of traffic-related features » US9217645B2 US Grant
2013 « Method to determine traffic characteristics in road traffic » US20140095059A1 US Application
2012 « Procedure for determining the probability of finding a parking place » US8423275B1 US Grant
2011 « Simplified procedure for storing data representing shapes » ES2577686T3 ES Grant
2009 « Mobile navigation system » DE102009052862A1 DE Application
Selected Press
2023 «Grab appoints Philipp Kandal as Chief Product Officer» Grab, Singapore
2018 «Telenav Open Sources Its AI map-making technology to improve OpenStreetMap and announces $10,000-Prize contest» Geospatial World India
2014 «Skobbler: Verkauf an Telenav» by Alex Hofmann @ GRÜNDERSZENE Germany
2014 «US-Firma kauft Berliner Navi-Anbieter Skobbler» by Jürgen Stüber @ Berliner Morgenpost Germany
2014 «Telenav Takes On Google With New OpenStreetMap-Based Offline Navigation SDK» by Frederic Lardinois @ Techcrunch USA
2014 «Telenav Buys Skobbler For $24M To Power An OpenStreetMap Challenge To Google Maps» by Natasha Lomas @ Techcrunch USA
2014 «Building a competitor for Google maps: Skobbler gets acquired for $24 million» by Andra Zaharia @ HOW TO WEB CONFERENCE Romania
2013 «Interview with Philipp Kandal, future speaker at How to Web & mentor at Startup Spotlight» by Andra Zaharia @ HOW TO WEB CONFERENCE Romania
2012 «Skobbler wants to take on Google in the maps biz» by Ryan Kim @ GigaOM USA
2012 «No Google Maps on Kindle Fire? No problem: Skobbler launches OpenStreetMap-based ForeverMap 2» by John Koetsier @ VentureBeat USA
2012 «Apple may have partnered with Skobbler to perfect iOS 6 maps» by Meghan Kelly @ VentureBeat USA
2012 «Skobbler brings maps to Nook Tablet, Color with ForeverMap 2» by Brian Heater @ engadget USA
2012 «Map Wars: Nook Gets Maps, Navigation, Location-Based Services, As Barnes & Noble Battles Google, Apple» by Neal Ungerleider @ FastCompany USA
2012 «Skobbler launches Google Maps competitor ForeverMap 2 on Android» by Tom Cheredar @ VentureBeat USA
2012 «New app gives Google Maps some competition» by Marguerite Reardon @ CNET USA
