Arun Sarin, Vodafone chief executive and Zarin Patel, BBC group finance director, are among the top 100 who wield most power in the British media industry.
LONDON: Two Non-Resident Indians, Arun Sarin, Vodafone chief executive, and Zarin Patel, group finance director of BBC, are among the top 100 people who wield most power in the British media industry.
Eric Schmidt, chief executive of Google leads the list followed by Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive, News Corporation. Richard Branson, founder, Virgin, is sixth in the list.
52-year-old Arun Sarin who is at 33rd spot issued a stark warning to the mobile phone industry over the threat posed by the Internet and rival new digital platforms.
Vodafone, Europe's largest mobile phone company, signed deals with three of the web's biggest brands earlier this year allowing its customers to access MySpace, YouTube and eBay on their handset.
With voice and text revenues increasingly under pressure, new entertainment and Internet services are finding favour among the big mobile phone companies.
"Sarin has done some big content deals in the last 12 months," said one of the panelists. "This is going to be the year of the mobile phone, and not just because of the launch of Apple's iPhone. Mobile video is going to take off and mobile advertising is starting to kick in as well."
49-year-old Zarin Patel is in charge of the 4 billion pounds purse strings of the BBC. Following the corporation's below-inflation license fee settlement, it is up to her and director general Mark Thompson to make the figures add up.
Patel was among the executives who waived their bonuses this year in light of the lower-than expected license fee.
Unveiling a shake-up of the BBC last year, Thompson said Patel and her department was 'already in the middle of a revolution based on all the right themes, simplicity, clarity and speed.'
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