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]
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Born | 1961 or 1962 (age 61–62) |
Nationality | American |
Education | Clarkson University (BS) |
Title | CEO, Arm Ltd. |
Term | February 2022 – |
Predecessor | Simon Segars |
Board member of | Mythic, 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
- Fitch, Asa; Driebusch, Corrie (September 8, 2023). "The Natural-Born Diplomat Behind This Year's Biggest IPO". The Wall Street Journal.
- Manners, David (February 28, 2022). "Arm clears out top management". Electronics Weekly. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
- "Arm Company Leadership". Arm Ltd. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
- "Arm appoints Rene Haas as Chief Executive Officer". Cambridge Network. February 8, 2022. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
- 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.
- King, Ian (February 7, 2022). "New Arm CEO Haas Steps Into Center of Chip Industry Turmoil". Bloomberg News. Retrieved April 6, 2022.