Rene Haas

Rene Haas (born 1961 or 1962[1]) is an American business executive who is chief executive officer (CEO) of Arm Ltd. since February 2022. He leads Arm from offices in California while the company headquarters remains in Cambridge, UK.[2]

Rene Haas
Haas in 2022
Born1961 or 1962 (age 61–62)
NationalityAmerican
EducationClarkson University (BS)
TitleCEO, Arm Ltd.
TermFebruary 2022 –
PredecessorSimon Segars
Board member ofMythic, Computacenter

Early life and education

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.[1] He also did an Executive Education Program from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.[3]

Career

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.[1]

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 is a director of Mythic, an artificial intelligence company in the San Francisco Bay Area, and he is also a director of Computacenter in the UK.[3]

Haas worked for Nvidia for seven years, rising to vice president and general manager of its computing products business.[4] He joined Arm in 2013, rising to president of the Arm IP Products Group (IPG) in 2017.[4]

In February 2022, Haas succeeded Simon Segars as CEO with immediate effect, as Segars was leaving Arm for personal reasons.[5][6] Haas reformed his leadership team within a few weeks, letting go three executives.[2] Haas will focus on taking Arm to its initial public offering (IPO).[6]

Personal life

Haas lives in Silicon Valley. He has two children.[1]

References
  1. Fitch, Asa; Driebusch, Corrie (September 8, 2023). "The Natural-Born Diplomat Behind This Year's Biggest IPO". The Wall Street Journal.
  2. Manners, David (February 28, 2022). "Arm clears out top management". Electronics Weekly. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  3. "Arm Company Leadership". Arm Ltd. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  4. "Arm appoints Rene Haas as Chief Executive Officer". Cambridge Network. February 8, 2022. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
  5. 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. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
  6. King, Ian (February 7, 2022). "New Arm CEO Haas Steps Into Center of Chip Industry Turmoil". Bloomberg News. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
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