Rene Haas | |
|---|---|
 Haas in 2022 | |
| Born | Rene Anthony Andrada Haas July 1962 (age 61) [1] |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Clarkson University (BS) |
| Title | CEO, Arm Holdings |
| Term | February 2022 – |
| Predecessor | Simon Segars |
| Board member of | Computacenter [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]
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]
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]
Haas lives in Silicon Valley. He has two children. [3]
Nvidia Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware. It is a software and fabless company which designs and supplies graphics processing units (GPUs), application programming interfaces (APIs) for data science and high-performance computing, as well as system on a chip units (SoCs) for the mobile computing and automotive market. Nvidia is also a dominant supplier of artificial intelligence (AI) hardware and software.
Masayoshi Son is a Japanese billionaire technology entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. A third-generation Zainichi Korean, he naturalized as a Japanese citizen in 1990. He is the founder, representative director, corporate officer, chairman and CEO of SoftBank Group Corp. (SBG), a strategic technology-focused investment holding company, as well as chairman of UK-based Arm Holdings.
Jen-hsun "Jensen" Huang is an American businessman, electrical engineer, and the co-founder, president and CEO of Nvidia. He co-founded Nvidia in 1993 at age 30 and in June 2024, it became the 2nd largest company in the world by market capitalization. As of June 2024, Forbes estimated Huang's net worth at $105.8 billion, making him the 14th richest person in the world, behind Michael Bloomberg.
Ursula M. Burns is an American businesswoman. Burns is known for her tenure as the CEO of Xerox from 2009 to 2016. In this role, Burns was the first black woman to lead a Fortune 500 company. She is also the first woman to follow another as the head of a Fortune 500 company. Burns remained the chairman at Xerox from 2010 to 2017.
Richard "Rick" Belluzzo is an American businessman who worked as an executive at Hewlett-Packard (HP), Silicon Graphics (SGI), Microsoft (MS), Quantum Corp. (QTM), and Viavi Solutions (VIAV). He has served on the board of directors of several technology companies. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Golden Gate University.
Arm Holdings plc is a British semiconductor and software design company based in Cambridge, England, whose primary business is the design of central processing unit (CPU) cores that implement the ARM architecture family of instruction sets. It also designs other chips, provides software development tools under the DS-5, RealView and Keil brands, and provides systems and platforms, system-on-a-chip (SoC) infrastructure and software. As a "holding" company, it also holds shares of other companies. Since 2016, it has been majority owned by Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group.
David Warren Arthur East is a British businessman and engineer. He is a former chief executive officer (CEO) of Rolls-Royce Holdings, a leading UK-based engine manufacturer, and previously held senior positions at ARM Holdings and Texas Instruments.
William R. McDermott is an American businessman and CEO of ServiceNow. Before ServiceNow, he was the CEO of the technology company SAP SE. During his tenure as co-CEO and CEO, SAP's market value increased from $39 billion to $156 billion. McDermott, along with Joanne Gordon, wrote a memoir, Winners Dream: A Journey from Corner Store to Corner Office, and was awarded a gold medal for business memoir of the year by the Axiom Business Book Awards. McDermott began his role as CEO of ServiceNow in November 2019.
Virginia "Ginni" Rometty is an American business executive who was executive chairman of IBM after stepping down as CEO on April 1, 2020. She was previously chairman, president and CEO of IBM, becoming the first woman to head the company. She retired from IBM on December 31, 2020, after a near-40 year career there. Before becoming president and CEO in January 2012, she first joined IBM as a systems engineer in 1981 and subsequently headed global sales, marketing, and strategy.
Mellanox Technologies Ltd. was an Israeli-American multinational supplier of computer networking products based on InfiniBand and Ethernet technology. Mellanox offered adapters, switches, software, cables and silicon for markets including high-performance computing, data centers, cloud computing, computer data storage and financial services.
Raul Marcelo Claure Bedoya is a Bolivian-American technology entrepreneur, businessman, and investor. He is the founder and CEO of Claure Group, the Executive Chairman of Bicycle Capital, and Group Vice Chairman for Shein.
Simon Anthony Segars is a British business executive executive who was chief executive officer (CEO) of ARM Holdings plc from 2013 to 2022. ARM is the UK's largest semiconductor IP company headquartered in Cambridge, England, and was acquired by SoftBank Group for £24.3 billion in 2016.
Hugo Barra is a Brazilian computer scientist, technology executive and entrepreneur. From 2008 to 2013, he worked in a number of product management roles at Google, including vice president and product spokesperson of its Android division. From 2013 to 2017, he worked at Xiaomi as vice president of global operations. From 2017 to 2021, he worked as vice president of Virtual Reality and head of the Oculus division at Meta Platforms. In May 2021, he left Meta to join health technology startup Detect as CEO.
Don Basile is an entrepreneur and high tech investor best known for his work in the fields of technology, healthcare, and telecommunications.
Lisa Tzwu-Fang Su is an American business executive and electrical engineer who is the president, chief executive officer and chair of AMD.
René Obermann is a German businessman who is co-head of Warburg Pincus International LLC's European operations, and chairman of Airbus SE since April 2020. He was previously CEO of Deutsche Telekom AG.
Johny Srouji is an Arab Israeli executive, currently Apple's senior vice president of Hardware Technologies.
Eric S Yuan is a Chinese-American billionaire businessman, engineer, and the chief executive officer and founder of Zoom Video Communications, of which he owns 22%.
Akshay Naheta is an Indian-born British business executive. He is the Founder & CEO of Distributed Technologies Research (DTR), a decentralized finance startup focusing on stablecoin technology and other linked services.