Yi-Chung Chao

TeleNav, Inc. engages in the provision of personalized mobile navigation and location based platform services. It combined the mobile navigation services business with the automotive business in a single segment. The firm's VIVID Nav application delivers hybrid navigation, which can provide in-vehicle navigation that is cloud connected for real-time traffic and up-to-date destinations search, and also functions when not cloud connected, such as when driving in areas with bad cell coverage. It offers five variations of VIVID Infotainment and navigation software products and services to its OEM and tier-one customers for distribution with their vehicles and systems The company was founded by Robert William Rennard, H. P. Jin, Yi Chung Chao, and Salman Dhanani in September 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Company is a leading provider of location based services, or LBS, including voice guided navigation, on mobile phones. Companies LBS solutions provide consumers and enterprises with convenient and easy to use location specific, real time and personalized features and functions. By using an integral tool of their daily lives, their mobile phone, the end users can access the LBS almost anytime and anywhere to efficiently navigate to their destinations and easily obtain relevant local information. Through company hosted service delivery model, company provide the solutions through the networks of leading wireless carriers in the United States, including Sprint Nextel Corporation, or Sprint, and AT&T Inc., or AT&T, as well as through certain carriers in other countries. Companies flexible and proprietary LBS platform enables company to efficiently provide the LBS to millions of end users, across more than 500 types of mobile phones, all major mobile phone operating systems and a broad range of wireless network protocols. As of September 30, 2009, company had more than 11 million paying end users.