"I feel that I have accomplished what I set out to achieve, particularly in developing and implementing a new strategy, " said Sarin in a press release Tuesday.
They got talking when Mittal was searching for an alliance to expand Bharti's roaming services in Europe and met Vodafone's chief executive, Arun Sarin, a fellow Indian.
The US government had previous funded MIT to do research into how carbon nanotubes could be used to detect nerve toxins including Sarin following a terrorist attack on the Tokyo subway which killed 12 people in 1995.
"We're very confident Sarin will secure a vast majority of the votes, " a Vodafone spokesman told Forbes.com today.
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Sarin, who comes from a military family, is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology and the University of Berkeley and started his career as a management consultant, before moving to San Francisco's Pacific Telesis Group in 1984.
He started as a deckhand on boats owned by Puglisi and Sarin, and eventually bought his own boats.
Howard-Sarin: You should insist that anybody who has a big pool of data like this solve integration problems.
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On Friday, Morley Fund Management , which owns a 2% stake in Vodafone, confirmed it would be voting against Sarin at the annual meeting.
Sarin played down the threats to his position Monday, and claimed there was a "silent" majority behind his plans.
Arun Sarin , the embattled chief executive of British mobile phone giant Vodafone, put on a brave face Monday as he responded to calls for his resignation.
Howard-Sarin: The marketer needs to know how long does it take for someone to buy a product?
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Rather than the big strategic acquisitions made by predecessor Arun Sarin several years ago in emerging markets, Vodafone has recently done little more than increase its stake in a South African telecoms company and merge with Hutchison's 3 Australia.
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