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Arun Sarin graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology with a BS in Engineering in 1975. In 1978 he gained a MS in Engineering and a MBA from the University of California, at Berkeley. He started his career as a management consultant before moving, in 1984, to Pacific Telesis Group in San Francisco. He was instrumental in the company acquiring the first cellular licences in the US, as well as winning the first cellular licence in Germany and a PCN licence in the UK. His career subsequently included appointments at Pacific Bell, San Francisco Bay Area Telephone Company and AirTouch Communications where, as President and CEO, he was a key negotiator in the successful acquisition of AirTouch by Vodafone Group plc. In 2000, with the successful merger of Vodafone AirTouch’s US businesses with those of Bell Atlantic and GTE to form Verizon Wireless, Arun, whilst maintaining a non-executive directorship of Vodafone AirTouch Plc, became CEO of Infospace. In 2001 he joined Accel-KKR Telecom, a telecom investment and management business and, in July 2003, became CEO of Vodafone Group plc. Arun has been a Non-Executive Director of The Gap Inc, The Charles Schwab Corporation and Cisco Systems Inc. In June 2005 his joined the Court of Directors of the Bank of England for a fixed three-year term.

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