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Technology Stocks : Vodafone-Airtouch (NYSE: VOD)
VOD 13.23+0.5%Dec 30 3:59 PM EST

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100% match; Financial Times ; 04-Feb-2000 12:00:00 am ; 162 words

Surf's up

Vodafone and Mannesmann may have just created a European giant, but a San Francisco dweller could well end up running it all.

Arun Sarin has been CEO of Vodafone AirTouch's US and Asia Pacific operations only since last June. But company insiders say he is the heir apparent to chief executive Chris Gent, and his role is only likely to get bigger with the completion of the biggest deal in history.

Sarin, 44, was president and chief operating officer of AirTouch when Vodafone took over last year, running operations in the US and 13 other countries. He also helped negotiate mid-1990s deals with US West and Bell Atlantic/Nynex. Before that, he worked at Pacific Telesis, from which AirTouch was spun off in 1994.

Born in India, Sarin is firmly rooted in California these days. After studying engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, he got an MBA - and a graduate engineering degree - at Berkeley, and now lives with his family in the San Francisco Bay area.

But don't count on finding him in the California sunshine for too much longer.

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