– UK, Cambridge – Arm today announced the appointment of Rene Haas to its board of directors as CEO, effective immediately, succeeding Simon Segars, who has stepped down as CEO and Board member.
“Rene is the right leader to accelerate Arm’s growth as the company starts making preparations to re-enter the public markets,” said Masayoshi Son, Chairman & CEO of SoftBank Group Corp.
About Rene Haas
Mr. Haas has served as president of the Arm IP Products Group since 2017. Under his leadership, IPG increased investment in the industry’s largest software developer ecosystem as well as products for growth markets such as infrastructure and automotive. These investments have resulted in new entrants to the Arm ecosystem including Alibaba, Ampere, AWS, Bosch, Denso, Mobileye, and Telechips, and have the company on track to achieve record royalty revenue, licensing revenue, and profits in the current financial year.
Before joining Arm in 2013, Mr. Haas held several applications management, applications engineering, and product engineering roles, including seven years at NVIDIA as VP and GM of its computing products business.
“It is an honor to lead the world’s most influential technology company at a time when Arm’s market opportunity has never been greater,” said Rene Haas. “As the innovators of the industry’s most pervasive compute architecture, Arm changed lives around the globe by delivering the technology at the heart of the smartphone revolution. We are now uniquely positioned to address the diverse demands of AI, cloud, IoT, automotive, and the Metaverse. And with the uncertainty of the past several months behind us, we are emboldened by a renewed energy to move into a growth strategy and change lives around the world―again.”
About Arm
Arm technology is at the heart of a computing and data revolution that is transforming the way people live and businesses operate. Arm’s energy-efficient processor designs and software platforms have enabled advanced computing in more than 215 billion chips and its technologies securely power products from the sensor to the smartphone and the supercomputer. Together with 1,000+ technology partners, Arm is at the forefront of designing, securing, and managing all areas of AI-enhanced connected compute from the chip to the cloud.
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