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 plc since February 2022. Haas is based in California while the company headquarters are in Cambridge, UK.[2][3]
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]
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 chief executive.[6][7][8] 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.[7]
In December 2024, it was announced that Haas will join the board of AstraZeneca as a non-executive director from January 2025.[9] He is a member of The Business Council.[10]
In 2025, Haas was named as one of the '100 Most Influential People in AI' by Time Magazine.[11][12]
Personal life
Haas lives in Silicon Valley. He has two children.[3]
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
