24 Facts About Arun Sarin

Arun Sarin was born on 21 October 1954 and is an Indian-American telecommunications executive.

Arun Sarin drove the integration of Vodafone, Airtouch and Mannesman.

Arun Sarin was the driving force behind the Vodafone's strategic move into emerging markets, especially Asia and Africa, through the purchases of Turkish operator Telsim and a controlling stake in Hutchison Essar in India.

Arun Sarin was a senior advisor at the private equity firm KKR.

Arun Sarin serves on the board of directors of Ola Electric, Charles Schwab and Accenture.

Arun Sarin is currently Chairman of Cerence, a conversational AI public company.

Arun Sarin received an honorary knighthood from the Queen at Buckingham Palace on 10 March 2010.

Arun Sarin was born in Pachmarhi, Madhya Pradesh, India, in 1954.

Arun Sarin pursued his secondary education at the Bangalore Military School.

Arun Sarin started his career as a management consultant before moving in 1984 to Pacific Telesis Group in San Francisco.

Arun Sarin was a director of AirTouch from July 1995 and was President and Chief Operating Officer from February 1997.

Arun Sarin was then appointed Vodafone's chief executive officer for the United States and Asia Pacific region until 15 April 2000, when Vodafone's US interests were merged into Verizon Wireless.

Arun Sarin subsequently became chief executive of InfoSpace in 2000 and of Accel-KKR Telecom based in San Francisco from 2001 to 2003, while serving as a non-executive director of Vodafone.

Arun Sarin rejoined Vodafone as chief executive designate on 1 April 2003 and was appointed on a permanent basis after the company's annual general meeting on 30 July 2003.

Arun Sarin expanded the product line of the company to include data, internet and broadband services.

Arun Sarin streamlined the operations of the company under the Vodafone brand to utilize the global scale while maintaining local customer focus.

Arun Sarin increased the dividends per share by 400 percent and returned value to shareholders through buybacks.

Arun Sarin retired from Vodafone immediately after the company's annual general meeting on 29 July 2008, and was succeeded by then deputy-CEO Vittorio Colao.

In October 2009, Arun Sarin was appointed as a senior advisor at the private equity firm KKR.

Arun Sarin has been a member of the advisory board of Accel KKR from 2010 until 2019.

Arun Sarin is currently an investor and adviser to a number of early stage technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area and India.

Arun Sarin serves on the board of directors of Ola Electric, Accenture and Charles Schwab.

Arun Sarin is the Chairman of Cerence, a conversational AI public company, spun out by Nuance, in October 2019.

Arun Sarin sits on the board of trustees for the Blum Center for Developing Economies at the University of California, Berkeley.