Search results
Sir Gerald Arthur "Gerry" Whent CBE (1 March 1927 in Ferozepore, India – 16 May 2002 in Chilton Foliat, Wiltshire) was the founder and first chief executive of Vodafone.
Jun 4, 2021 · CEO, Founder, Top Tech Companies. Most of us know our Musks from our Bezos and our Gates from our Jobs. But who are the founders and CEOs behind a lot of the other, most popular tech companies? Who’s the CEO of Dyson? Can you name the 3 founders of Apple? We’ve pulled together a list – both of the company founders, but also the current CEO.
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.
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.
In 1980, The head of Racal's military radio division, Gerry Whent, was briefed by Ernest Harrison to drive the company into commercial mobile radio. Whent visited a mobile radio factory run by General Electric (unrelated to GEC) in Virginia, USA, the same year to understand the commercial use of military radio technology.
"I was one of the first five employees," he remembers. "I was asked by Gerry Whent, who founded the company, to be the technical director from the beginning.
People also ask
Who is Gerry Whent?
Who was Sir Gerald Whent?
Who is John Whent & what did he do?
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 of...
