Rene Haas (born 1962/1963) is the American

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(CEO) of

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since February 2022. He leads Arm from offices in California while the company headquarters remains in Cambridge, UK. Haas worked for

Nvidia Nvidia CorporationOfficially written as NVIDIA and stylized in its logo as VIDIA with the lowercase "n" the same height as the uppercase "VIDIA"; formerly stylized as VIDIA with a large italicized lowercase "n" on products from the mid 1990s to ...

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. On February 8, 2022, Haas succeeded

Simon Segars Simon Anthony Segars (born 17 October 1967) is the former chief executive officer (CEO) of ARM Holdings plc from 2013 to 2022., Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas ARM is the UK-largest semiconductor IP company headquartered in Cambridge, Eng ...

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. Haas will focus on taking Arm to its

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(IPO). Haas is an electronics engineering graduate of

Clarkson University Clarkson University is a private research university with its main campus in Potsdam, New York, and additional graduate program and research facilities in the New York Capital Region and Beacon, New York. It was founded in 1896 and has an en ...

in upstate New York, and he holds a masters degree from

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. He led the sales division of

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for five years beginning in 1999, then in 2004–2006 he served as vice president of sales and marketing at Scintera Networks. He is a

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of Mythic, an artificial intelligence company in the

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, and he is also a director of

Computacenter Computacenter plc is a British multinational that provides computer services to public- and private-sector customers. It is a UK company based in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constitue ...

in the UK.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Haas, Rene American chief executives Living people Arm Holdings people Nvidia people Year of birth missing (living people) Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni Clarkson University alumni 1960s births