Charles Dunstone, Carphone Warehouse CEO
Position: 42 Last year: 38
Why? Starting the 'free' broadband war
Agree with panel rating?
In the cut-throat world of mobile phones, Charles Dunstone's beaming boyish face stands out as the one consumers can trust.
He has set himself up as their champion. Last year he gained recognition from the Agenda Setters panel for offering 'free' broadband, bundled with phone contracts, prompting other players in the mobile market, such as Orange, to follow suit.
This year he has earned praise from the judges for offering a free laptop with AOL Broadband, another of his recent acquisitions.
Always setting the agenda for shoppers on what the must-have handsets will be, Carphone Warehouse helped revitalise Motorola when it exclusively offered the Razr flip phone in pink two Christmases ago.
This year, he was the apple of everyone's eye with an exclusive deal on the iPhone. It's sure to be another winner for the man who started by selling car phones out of his London flat in 1989.
Take a walk down memory lane - and find out who made the agenda setters poll in years past
"Blogging's definitely got to the point where there're enough mainstream consumers watching it for the top bloggers to be regarded as agenda setters."
Michael Smith,
Agenda Setters panellist
"Open source gets more important rather than being something that will get squeezed out of the enterprise."
Simon Briskman,
Agenda Setters panellist
The world's 50 most innovative companies BusinessWeek
The world's 100 most powerful women Forbes.com
Chron 500 - The San Francisco Bay Area's top public companies San Francisco Chronicle
100 fastest growing tech companies Business 2.0
Content featuring Charles Dunstone
Carphone Warehouse sold half of its phone retail side to the US-based electronics chain Best Buy a year ago, and chief executive Charles Dunstone said in Friday's results statement that the time had come to separate the resulting joint venture...
In a conference call on Friday morning, Carphone Warehouse chief executive Charles Dunstone said his company had always been "very clear that we know the price that we're happy to pay for this business and we won't overpay.
Ross resigned as a director on Sunday after using 136.4 million of his shares in Carphone Warehouse against the loans, said Carphone Warehouse chief executive Charles Dunstone on Monday. Over the weekend the company was notified that deputy chair...
In his keynote, Carphone Warehouse boss Charles Dunstone talked of 'radical transparency'. Dunstone also advised that now was the time to think more creatively about supplier relationships, when other retailers will be instinctively putting the...
These are the words of Carphone Warehouse founder and CEO Charles Dunstone. Dunstone, who is notorious for opening up new markets for customers, said the retail industry is facing challenging times but that there are still opportunities.
We are trying to build very flexible IT systems that can rapidly change for when Charles Dunstone [Carphone Warehouse CEO] has his next great idea and gives me two days' notice. Mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse has signed a $200m five-year...
Copyright © 2008 CBS Interactive Limited. All rights reserved. Top of page
RSS Feeds