TeleNav Press Release

TeleNav Appoints Bill Bettencourt as Chief Marketing and Sales Officer

Apr. 23, 2007

Seasoned wireless executive moves with company into larger Silicon Valley facility

Sunnyvale, CA – April 23, 2007 – TeleNav Inc., the first company to launch a GPS navigation application on mobile devices in the U.S., today announced the appointment of Bill Bettencourt as chief marketing and sales officer. Bettencourt will drive sales operations and lead strategy development for TeleNav’s brand, marketing and
corporate communications.

TeleNav continues to expand its employee base year over year, reflecting ongoing innovation of its products and widespread customer adoption from its growing carrier relationships. To accommodate current and future growth, the company recently moved its corporate headquarters from Santa Clara to a facility more than twice the size in Sunnyvale, Calif. As the new chief marketing and sales officer, Bettencourt will drive further growth and advancement by leading the sales and marketing teams on product and service initiatives that increase awareness of TeleNav’s location-based service (LBS) solutions and maintain the superior quality of service the for which the company
is known.

As a former vice president of sales and marketing at AirTouch Cellular (now Verizon Wireless), Bettencourt is a wireless veteran with a history of success in launching and promoting wireless voice and data services.

“TeleNav pioneered the LBS category and I am excited to be a key part of the team that is driving the company’s incredible growth,” said Bettencourt. “We are implementing new and innovative sales and marketing plans to bring LBS services to more consumers and businesses, and I look forward to using my past experience to build on this strategy.”

Early in his career, Bettencourt held management positions with Frito Lay/PepsiCo and Del Monte Foods, where he managed marketing for national food and beverage brands. Later, Bettencourt leveraged his marketing and business management expertise to drive service business models as COO of Ingenio, a successful Silicon Valley Web startup.

“As we continue to expand our market leadership position in the LBS industry, Bill is an ideal fit to help move our sales and marketing strategy in the right direction,” said Dr. HP Jin, president, CEO and co-founder of TeleNav. “Bill’s vast knowledge of the wireless industry, his success in developing fast growing businesses and his expertise dealing with large national brands will bring ground-breaking ideas and execution ability to our overall business approach.”

Bettencourt received a Masters of Business Administration in marketing and finance from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Arts in biology from Whitman College.

TeleNav’s new headquarters address is 1130 Kifer Road, Sunnyvale, Calif., 94086.

Media Contacts

Mary Beth Lowell
Communications Manager
425-531-0122 phone
media@telenav.com

About TeleNav Inc.

TeleNav, Inc., a privately-held company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, was the first to launch a cell phone GPS system in the United States. Deployed by 15 carriers in 21 countries, TeleNav is a global leader in wireless location-based services (LBS). Currently, the company's solutions are available in four continents, including North and South America, Asia and Europe.

TeleNav's solutions include GPS navigation, Mobile Resource Management (MRM), asset GPS tracking (AVL), social networking and local search. The company's flagship product, TeleNav GPS Navigator™, is comparable to in-car systems found in luxury vehicles, offering a superior experience with functionality, such as automatically-updated maps and business locations, full color 3D moving maps, traffic alerts and one-click rerouting, location-sharing, business reviews, speech recognition, Wi-Fi hotspot finder, lowest-price fuel finder and more. TeleNav's enterprise application, TeleNav Track, incorporates GPS-enabled tracking, time sheets, wireless forms and navigation. TeleNav Track is a widely adopted service with over 8,000 customer organizations using it today.

TeleNav products are available on more than 200 wireless devices and run on all major mobile platforms currently available. TeleNav's partners include Sprint Nextel, AT&T, T-Mobile USA, Alltel, Boost Mobile, Qwest, SouthernLINC Wireless, Rogers, Bell Mobility, T-Mobile UK, T-Mobile Austria, China Mobile, Vivo Brazil, NII Holdings, Research In Motion (RIM), Motorola, Samsung, Sanyo, LG, Palm, HTC, Hewlett Packard, Nokia, NAVTEQ, Tele Atlas, deCarta, INRIX, Qualcomm and SiRF Technology Holdings.

For more information on TeleNav, please visit www.telenav.com.

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