The board of the Internet major Yahoo! is moving closer to naming a replacement for the outgoing CEO Jerry Yang – with Vodafone’s Arun Sarin as one of the possible names in the frame.
Mr.Arun Sarin stood down as the Vodafone chief in July, 2008. The search for the CEO post began when Jerry Yang stepped down as CEO of Yahoo! and returned to his previous position in charge of strategy and development. Mr.Sarin is among the few potential candidates to be considered to this position with others believed to include former AOL boss Jonathan Miller. The other person considered for this position includes Mr.John Chapple, a Seattle venture capitalist and a Yahoo board member.
Mr.Sarin has a lot of experience and is one of the right man to be considered for this top-notch job. Mr.Sarin is an alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur where he did his B.Tech. He further gained an MS in engineering after which he pursued a MBA degree from the University of California. Mr.Sarin had many occasions in which he efficiently managed companies. He was the director of AirTouch and then he became the chief executive of InfoSpace. Then he earned the reputation of becoming the CEO of Vodafone.
Sarin was appointed at a time when the investment community wanted Vodafone to concentrate on managing its businesses efficiently and returning cash to shareholders, after its dramatic takeover driven expansion between 1999 and 2002. In 2004 he entered an auction for AT&T Wireless in the face of considerable hostility from analysts and shareholders, but withdrew when Cingular made an offer he did not think was in Vodafone’s interests to match.
All the best to Mr. Arun Sarin!!!
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