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Rene Haas

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Rene Haas
Haas in 2022
Born
Rene Anthony Andrada Haas

July 1962 (age 62)[1]
NationalityAmerican
EducationClarkson University (BS)
TitleCEO, Arm Holdings
TermFebruary 2022 –
PredecessorSimon Segars
Board member ofComputacenter[1]

Rene Anthony Andrada Haas (born 1962)[1] is an American executive who has been chief executive officer (CEO) of Arm Holdings plc since February 2022. Haas is based in California while the company headquarters are in Cambridge, UK.[2][3]

Early life and education

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Haas was born to a German-Jewish father who worked as a research scientist at Xerox and a Portuguese mother. He was raised in a suburb of Rochester, New York. In 1984, Haas completed his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Clarkson University in upstate New York.[3] He also did an Executive Education Program from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.[4]

Career

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Haas moved to Silicon Valley to work in sales in the semiconductor industry after brief stints as an engineer at Texas Instruments, Xerox and NEC.[3]

He led the sales division of Tensilica for five years beginning in 1999, then in 2004–2006 he was vice president of sales and marketing at Scintera Networks. He was a non-executive director of Mythic, an artificial intelligence company in the San Francisco Bay Area,[when?] and also as a director of Computacenter in the UK.[1][4]

Haas worked for Nvidia for seven years, rising to vice president and general manager of its computing products business.[5] He joined Arm in 2013, rising to president of the Arm IP Products Group (IPG) in 2017.[5]

In February 2022, Haas succeeded Simon Segars as CEO with immediate effect, as Segars was leaving Arm for personal reasons.[6][7] Haas reformed his leadership team within a few weeks, letting go three executives.[2] Initially, Haas was responsible for taking Arm from a privately held company to its second initial public offering (IPO).[7]

In December 2024, it was announced that Haas will join the board of AstraZeneca as a non-executive director from January 2025.[8]

Personal life

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Haas lives in Silicon Valley. He has two children.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Anon (2023). "Rene Anthony Andrada HAAS". gov.uk. London: Companies House. Archived from the original on December 21, 2023.
  2. ^ a b Manners, David (February 28, 2022). "Arm clears out top management". electronicsweekly.com. Electronics Weekly. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d Fitch, Asa; Driebusch, Corrie (September 8, 2023). "The Natural-Born Diplomat Behind This Year's Biggest IPO". wsj.com. The Wall Street Journal.
  4. ^ a b "Arm Company Leadership". arm.com. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  5. ^ a b "Arm appoints Rene Haas as Chief Executive Officer". Cambridge Network. February 8, 2022. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
  6. ^ Moorhead, Patrick (February 8, 2022). "Surprise! NVIDIA Deal Off, Arm Is Very Profitable, Has A New CEO, And Rene Haas Is Looking Forward To Its IPO". forbes.com. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
  7. ^ a b King, Ian (February 7, 2022). "New Arm CEO Haas Steps Into Center of Chip Industry Turmoil". bloomberg.com. Bloomberg News. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  8. ^ Ralph, Alex (December 16, 2024). "Arm Holdings chief executive to join board of AstraZeneca". www.thetimes.com. Retrieved December 17, 2024.