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]
