Rene Haas

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. 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. Haas reformed his leadership team within a few weeks, letting three executives go. In addition, Haas was responsible for taking Arm from a privately held company to its second initial public offering. He is a member of The Business Council. In 2025, Haas was named as one of the '100 Most Influential People in AI' by Time Magazine. == Personal life ==

Haas lives in Silicon Valley. He has two children. ==References==