Rene Haas

Rene Anthony Andrada Haas (born 1962) 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.

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. He also did an Executive Education Program from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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.

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, and also as a director of Computacenter in the UK.

Haas worked for Nvidia for seven years, rising to vice president and general manager of its computing products business. He joined Arm in 2013, rising to president of the Arm IP Products Group (IPG) in 2017.

In February 2022, Haas succeeded Simon Segars as CEO with immediate effect, as Segars was leaving Arm for personal reasons. Haas reformed his leadership team within a few weeks, letting go three executives. Initially, Haas was responsible for taking Arm from a privately held company to its second initial public offering (IPO).

Personal life
Haas lives in Silicon Valley. He has two children.