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May 22, 2002 · THE man who launched the worldwide Vodafone empire, Sir Gerald Whent, has died at the age of 75 after a fall at his Wiltshire home. His successor, Sir Christopher Gent, said: 'Gerry was full...
Jan 1, 2010 · "I remember having a disagreement with my esteemed leader (Vodafone chief executive Sir Gerald 'Gerry' Whent) because I was thinking in terms of millions and Gerry said 'I am not a price cutter ...
May 24, 2002 · 24 May 2002 • 12:03am. Sir Gerald Whent, who has died aged 75, was the founder of Vodafone and one of the fathers of the British mobile phone industry.
Jan 27, 2015 · Wise, incongruously dressed like a character from a Dickens novel, was calling an old friend, Gerry Whent, the chief executive of Vodafone. Back in 1985, Vodafone was just a small start-up company that rented the offices above the Indian restaurant.
May 15, 2018 · Sir Gerry Whent, the first chief executive, oversaw the birth of the company when Racal Electronics, a military radio specialist, was in 1982 awarded one of two licences by Margaret Thatcher to run what was then called a cellular telephone network.
Jun 1, 2003 · Spun out of Sir Ernie Harrison's Racal Electronics in the late Eighties, Gent succeeded Gerry Whent as Vodafone chief executive in 1997. The timing could not have been better: mobile phones...
Jan 2, 1995 · Gerry Whent, chief executive of the Vodafone Group Plc and already holder of a CBE, scored the most prestigeous title for the British information technology industry in the New Year’s Honours List, being appointed a knighthood for his services to mobile telecommunications.
