Rene Haas
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 |
| Term | February 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]
Early life and education
[edit]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][6]
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]
Haas also is chief executive for the international business of SoftBank, the majority owner of Arm. In 2026 Arm’s remuneration committee proposed to shareholders that Hass be awarded share options of up to $100 million if Arm becomes a trillion-dollar value company by 2029, and $800 million if Arm becomes a two trillion-dollar company by 2031.[15]
Personal life
[edit]Haas lives in Silicon Valley. He has two children.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Anon (2023). "Rene Anthony Andrada HAAS". gov.uk. London: Companies House. Archived from the original on December 21, 2023.
- ^ a b Manners, David (February 28, 2022). "Arm clears out top management". electronicsweekly.com. Electronics Weekly. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b "Arm Company Leadership". arm.com. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
- ^ a b "Arm appoints Rene Haas as Chief Executive Officer". Cambridge Network. February 8, 2022. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
- ^ "Nvidia's 'very unique culture' makes it 'very, very fast,' Arm CEO says". Quartz. June 10, 2024. Retrieved February 3, 2026.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Wakefield, Jane (February 9, 2022). "Arm boss: We can do it by ourselves". Retrieved January 6, 2026.
- ^ Ralph, Alex (December 16, 2024). "Arm Holdings chief executive to join board of AstraZeneca". www.thetimes.com. Retrieved December 17, 2024.
- ^ Admin. "Active Members". The Business Council. Retrieved July 9, 2025.
- ^ "TIME100 AI 2025". TIME. Retrieved September 24, 2025.
- ^ "TIME Honors Rene Haas on its 2025 TIME100 AI List". Arm Newsroom. August 28, 2025. Retrieved January 6, 2026.
- ^ Titcomb, James (May 31, 2026). "Arm boss is promised $800m to create UK's first trillion-dollar company". The Telegraph. London. Retrieved May 31, 2026.