Arun Sarin

Arun Sarin (Hindi: अरुण सरीन ) ( born October 21, 1954 in Pachmarhi ( Madhya Pradesh ), India) was from April 1, 2003 to July 29, 2008 CEO of Vodafone.

Biography

Sarin is the son of Ramilla and Krishan Sarin, a military officer. He studied engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. Sarin began his professional career as a management consultant before moving to the Pacific Telesis Group in San Francisco in 1984. As of July 1995, he was Director at Airtouch. From February 1997 to June 1999 he served as President and COO there. To 15 April 2000, he was CEO for Vodafone in the United States. As a result, he was CEO of InfoSpace from 2000 to 2001 and from Accel - KKR Telecom von 2001 to 2003. From 1 April 2003 to 29 July 2008, he was again working for Vodafone, succeeding Chris Gent. Since his retirement on 29 July 2008 his post was taken over the former vice-chief Vittorio Colao.

He focused first on the undeveloped markets in India, Turkey and Romania. At his instigation, Vodafone made ​​a bid in the amount of 11.1 billion U $ to a stake of 67 % in the Indian mobile company Hutch Essar. Until then placed third in the Indian market will be the market leader with Vodafone Sarin now there.

Sarin was elected as an advisory member ( non-executive director) of the Board of Directors of the joint stock companies of Gap Inc., Charles Schwab Corporation and Cisco Systems. In April 2005, he was called sarin in the " Non-Executive Director 's Committee " of the Bank of England.

Sarin is married to Rummi Anand and has two children with her.

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