Rene Haas
American businessman
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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]
July 1962 (age 63)[1]
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| 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] |
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]
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]