wow - he delivered £10bn in profits, all by himself? he must have been run ragged manning all those call center posts while simultaneously working as network engineer, wireless engineer, handset engineer and sales person.

But I'm sure it was written into his contract that Vodafone was to pay his resettlement costs when he left (they probably didn't expect him to fly his 40ft containers back though). At least he had the decency to make them a profit before he left.

it's possibly the same way banks measured profit, lend someone £100 million at 10% interest and instantly declare a £10 million profit, even though you are actually £100 million down until it's paid back, if it's paid back.

I don't know the full details but on the face of it haf-a-mill seems reasonable if the 10 bill are true reflections of one's abilities.

It's the 17 mill handshake pension of an organisation in freefall meltown that I consider to be well and truly dodgy.

Sarin was a decent CEO, and the company did make money, and I don't really mind a good CEO being well paid - it is bad ones being paid huge sums that I object to - however, how exactly does one spend £500,000 on relocation expenses. Individual seats in first class for each item of furniture? One can ship rather a few containers across the Atlantic for that much money I would think, particularly in the present depressed shipping market.

the 10Billion dollar man, it is a bit like the central bank leaders they do so much work, it is not like anyone else does anything.

At least he contributed something, unlike the scavengers in westminster who contribute nothing and take everything.