On January 30, 2023, Grab Holdings Limited announced that it has promoted Philipp Kandal to Chief Product Officer, effective February 1, 2023. He will oversee the Product, Design and Analytics teams and lead the product vision and strategy for Grab. As Chief Product Officer, Philipp will lead teams responsible for delivering products that consumers, driver- and merchant-partners trust and love, while driving profitable growth for the company.

He will focus on unlocking greater synergies across Grab's superapp ecosystem to create more value for its users and partners, and building a product mix that offers affordable services for those seeking value as well as highly differentiated premium offerings. Drawn to Grab's mission to create economic empowerment for everyone in Southeast Asia, Philipp joined the company in October 2019 to lead the engineering and data science teams for Geo, the vertical that powers location-based intelligence and services. Soon, he became the head of the entire Geo organization, managing the business, product and tech functions.

In 2022, his scope was expanded to oversee the Fulfillment product and tech teams that ensure bookings and orders are efficiently and reliably fulfilled using the ecosystem of Grab's driver-partner network and marketplace capabilities. Philipp will continue to lead the Geo organization in addition to his Chief Product Officer responsibilities. Under his leadership, Grab launched its enterprise service GrabMaps in June 2022 to address Southeast Asia's hyperlocal mapping needs.

An entrepreneur for the early part of his career, Philipp co-founded and was the CTO of Skobbler, which was acquired by Silicon Valley based Telenav, where he served as Senior VP for Engineering in his last role prior to joining Grab. At Telenav, Philipp was a part of the executive team, leading the global engineering team of 400+ members and focused on innovation in the connected car space, delivering solutions to tens of millions of vehicles as well as AI based mapmaking.