Rene Haas

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Rene Haas
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Haas at SXSW 2025
Born
Rene Anthony Andrada Haas

July 1962 (age 63) [1]
Education Clarkson University (BS)
Title CEO, Arm Holdings
TermFebruary 2022 –
Board member of Computacenter [1]

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

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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. [3] He also did an Executive Education Program from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. [4]

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. [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] [6]

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Haas in 2022

He joined Arm in 2013, [7] rising to president of the Arm IP Products Group (IPG) in 2017. [5] In February 2022, Haas succeeded Simon Segars as chief executive. [8] [9] [10] Haas reformed his leadership team within a few weeks, letting three executives go. [2] In addition, Haas was responsible for taking Arm from a privately held company to its second initial public offering. [9]

In December 2024, it was announced that Haas will join the board of AstraZeneca as a non-executive director from January 2025. [11] He is a member of The Business Council. [12]

In 2025, Haas was named as one of the '100 Most Influential People in AI' by Time Magazine. [13] [14]

Personal life

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

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Anon (2023). "Rene Anthony Andrada HAAS". gov.uk. London: Companies House. Archived from the original on December 21, 2023.
  2. 1 2 Manners, David (February 28, 2022). "Arm clears out top management". electronicsweekly.com. Electronics Weekly . Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Fitch, Asa; Driebusch, Corrie (September 8, 2023). "The Natural-Born Diplomat Behind This Year's Biggest IPO". wsj.com. The Wall Street Journal.
  4. 1 2 "Arm Company Leadership". arm.com. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  5. 1 2 "Arm appoints Rene Haas as Chief Executive Officer". Cambridge Network. February 8, 2022. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
  6. ↑ "Nvidia's 'very unique culture' makes it 'very, very fast,' Arm CEO says". Quartz. June 10, 2024. Retrieved February 3, 2026.
  7. ↑ "Arm CEO on lesson learnt while working under Nvidia founder Jensen Huang: He would change strategy at an off-site meeting meant to…". The Times of India. October 2, 2025. ISSN   0971-8257 . Retrieved February 3, 2026.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. 1 2 King, Ian (February 7, 2022). "New Arm CEO Haas Steps Into Center of Chip Industry Turmoil". bloomberg.com. Bloomberg News . Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  10. ↑ Wakefield, Jane (February 9, 2022). "Arm boss: We can do it by ourselves" . Retrieved January 6, 2026.
  11. ↑ Ralph, Alex (December 16, 2024). "Arm Holdings chief executive to join board of AstraZeneca". www.thetimes.com. Retrieved December 17, 2024.
  12. ↑ Admin. "Active Members". The Business Council. Retrieved July 9, 2025.
  13. ↑ "TIME100 AI 2025". TIME. Retrieved September 24, 2025.
  14. ↑ "TIME Honors Rene Haas on its 2025 TIME100 AI List". Arm Newsroom. August 28, 2025. Retrieved January 6, 2026.