Rene Haas
Chief Executive Officer
Rene was appointed Chief Executive Officer and to the Arm Board in February 2022. Prior to being appointed CEO, Rene was President of Arm’s IP Product Groups (IPG) from January 2017. Under his leadership, Rene transformed IPG to focus on key solutions for vertical markets with a more diversified product portfolio and increased investment in the Arm software ecosystem. In addition to his role as CEO, Rene also sits on the boards of Arm China and SoftBank Group.
Rene joined Arm in October 2013 as Vice President of Strategic Alliances and two years later was appointed to the Executive Committee and named Arm’s Chief Commercial Officer in charge of global sales and marketing.
Before joining Arm, Rene held several applications management, applications engineering and product engineering roles, including seven years at NVIDIA as vice president and general manager of its computing products business. Prior to NVIDIA, Rene held executive roles at Scintera Networks and Tensilica.
Rene is based in Silicon Valley, U.S., he also spends significant time in the major technology centers of the UK, Europe and APAC.
Rene earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Clarkson University and is a graduate of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business Executive Education Program.
Jason Child
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Jason’s career spans 30 years across all aspects of global finance and strategy, accounting, capital markets/treasury, IPO execution, and investor relations. He has extensive experience in scaling disruptive technologies within enterprise software/SaaS, e-commerce, local commerce, consumer hardware/IOT, and online residential real estate. He most recently served as senior vice-president and CFO at Splunk, a technology company specializing in application management, security, and compliance, as well as business and web analytics.
Before his executive leadership roles, Jason spent more than 11 years leading various global finance teams at Amazon, and served as CFO of Amazon International. Jason has served as a member of the board of directors of Coupang, Inc., an e-commerce company, since April 2022. He holds a B.A. from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington, where he currently serves on its Global Advisory Board.
Kirsty Gill
Chief People Officer
Kirsty joined Arm in 2002 and has held various leadership roles in the People group, including executive remuneration, reward, organizational effectiveness, and people services and systems. She became Arm’s Chief People Officer in 2018. Her portfolio now extends to include people, workplace, and sustainability.
She is known for delivering a unique, progressive, and human working environment, ensuring that the Arm Core Beliefs are at the heart of how it feels to work at Arm, allowing everyone to thrive and contribute to their full potential.
Prior to Arm, Kirsty was HR Director for a start-up company, GF-X, and started her HR career at Accenture.
Kirsty graduated from Cambridge University and is a board director of Cambridge Ahead.
Spencer Collins
Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer
Spencer is Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer at Arm and leads each of the global legal, compliance, company secretary, government affairs and corporate development teams. Spencer has more than 20 years of industry experience and has served as lead counsel on many of the highest-profile M&A and investment transactions in the technology sector.
Before joining Arm, Spencer was Managing Partner and General Counsel at SoftBank Investment Advisors (SBIA), the investment manager of the world’s largest technology-focused investment fund, SoftBank Vision Fund. Spencer has also served as a partner in the investment team at SBIA. Prior to SBIA, Spencer practiced as a technology-focused M&A and investment lawyer in the London offices of White & Case and Allen & Overy (A&O). He also spent time on secondment from A&O to Fenwick & West in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Spencer is based in the U.K. and spends a significant amount of time in Silicon Valley, U.S.
Spencer holds an LL.B. with first class honors and was named General Counsel of the Year at The Lawyer Awards 2023 and the British Legal Awards 2023.
Tamika Curry Smith
Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer
Tamika leads Arm’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) strategy, focusing on building high-performing teams, an inclusive environment, and DEI-enabled business results.
Tamika previously led DEI at Nike, Inc., Mercedes-Benz USA, Target Corporation, and Deloitte. She has also advised dozens of senior leaders and organizations on how to advance their DEI initiatives.
Tamika serves on the advisory boards of the Sanger Leadership Center, SemperVirens Venture Capital, Mathison, and Talenya, Ltd. She holds a BBA from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Drew Henry
Executive Vice President, Strategy and Ecosystem
Drew leads a series of strategic growth initiatives for Arm. He first joined Arm in 2017 as General Manager of the company’s infrastructure business.
Prior to joining Arm, Drew was CEO of Acetti Software, a cloud virtualization start-up. At SanDisk, Drew was the Senior Vice President and General Manager for various business units developing data storage solutions for telecommunication, consumer electronic, automotive, and cloud companies. At NVIDIA, Drew was the General Manager for GeForce.
He has an MSEE from the University of Southern California and a BS in Engineering Physics from the University of the Pacific. Drew is also an avid pilot and open water swimmer.
Will Abbey
Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer
Will leads sales, field engineering, and partner enablement at Arm, helping some of the world's most innovative organizations leverage the newest technologies to ready themselves for the next wave of digital transformation. From IP to AI, Will's unique insight has helped the world's technology leaders transform their products and operations.
Will joined Arm in 2004 and has held a number of leadership roles, including General Manager of Arm's Physical Design group. Before joining Arm, he worked in product management positions at Celoxica, Infineon Technologies, and Loughborough Sound Images. He serves on the board of EnPro Industries and holds a BEng from Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
Ami Badani
Chief Marketing Officer
Ami is an accomplished technology leader with over 20 years of experience in marketing, product management, business development, strategy, and investment research. Currently, she serves as the Chief Marketing Officer at Arm, where she leads the global marketing organization, driving company and product positioning, brand awareness, thought leadership, and developer engagement.
Before joining Arm, Ami was the Vice President of Marketing and Developer Products at NVIDIA, where she contributed to the company's threefold growth and helped it reach a market cap of three trillion dollars. She was instrumental in driving the data strategy for Generative AI and leading the product, developer ecosystem, and marketing efforts for the data center portfolio, the fastest-growing business segment.
Ami also held various roles at Cumulus Networks (acquired by NVIDIA), Instart Logic (acquired by Akamai Technologies), Cisco, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, among others.
She holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a B.S. in business from the University of Southern California.
Dipti Vachani
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Automotive Line of Business
Dipti leads the organization responsible for delivering Arm-based solutions that drive new opportunities in automotive.
Previously, Dipti served as Vice President and General Manager of the Product Management and Customer Enablement division in the IoT Group at Intel. At Texas Instruments, Dipti held several leadership positions and led the creation of the company’s Sitara brand of Arm MPUs.
Dipti is on the Women’s Leadership Council for the Global Semiconductor Association. She holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M, an Executive MBA degree from the University of Texas, and is a graduate of the Executive Education programs at Stanford, Harvard, and Cambridge business schools.
Paul Williamson
Senior Vice President and General Manager, IoT Line of Business
Paul leads the IoT line of business at Arm where he and his team are working alongside the Arm ecosystem to bring compute to a diverse set of applications, unlocking value with intelligence and automation.
Previously at Arm, Paul has led the client line of business, shaping the future of consumer products, as well as the security, IoT, and wireless businesses.
Prior to joining Arm, Paul led the low-power wireless division of CSR, a fabless semiconductor business (now part of Qualcomm). Paul started his career in engineering consultancy, working with leading global brands to develop innovative products and services. He holds an MEng from Durham University.
Chris Bergey
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Client Line of Business
Chris leads Arm’s client line of business where he is responsible for defining the compute platform that shapes user experiences in the smartphone, the Metaverse, gaming, and laptop/tablet markets. Previously, he led the infrastructure line of business at Arm.
Prior to joining Arm, Chris served as SVP of Devices Products at Western Digital and was responsible for product management and product marketing across the company’s $10B+ portfolio of hard drive and flash-based products for datacenter, client, mobile, automotive, and IoT.
Chris holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Drexel University and an MBA degree from the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.
Mohamed Awad
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Infrastructure Line of Business
Mohamed Awad leads the infrastructure line of business at Arm where he is responsible for leveraging Neoverse’s class-leading performance per watt to accelerate Arm’s growth across Cloud, HPC, 5G, and the Edge. Previously, Mohamed led Arm’s IoT line of business.
Prior to joining Arm, Mohamed spent 10 years in various leadership roles at Broadcom, including establishing the Mixed Signal Asic Products division and building its security and mobile payments business. Before Broadcom, Mohamed served in various leadership roles at Ember Corporation, Lucent Technologies, Nortel Networks, and Avici Systems.
Mohamed has been named inventor or co-inventor on multiple patents throughout his career and holds a BS in Computer Science, from the University of Massachusetts.
Richard Grisenthwaite
Executive Vice President and Chief Architect
Richard is responsible for the long-term evolution of the Arm architecture and has led its development for more than 20 years, beginning with Armv6. He is currently leading development on Armv9 to ensure its specialized processing unlocks new markets and opportunities across the full spectrum of compute.
In his early days at Arm, Richard worked on Arm720T, Arm940T, and Arm1136EJF-S. Prior to Arm, Richard worked for Analog Devices on fixed-function DSP, and at Inmos/ST on the Transputer.
Richard is an Arm fellow, has a BA in Electrical and Information Sciences from the University of Cambridge, and holds 107 patents in the field of microprocessors.
Gary Campbell
Executive Vice President, Central Engineering
Gary leads Arm’s central engineering team, which encompasses most of Arm’s engineering functions.
He joined Arm in 1998 as a CPU designer, eventually progressing to engineering leadership as Vice President of Engineering for Media and CPU. His passion for excellence enables Arm to deliver a continued increase in its cadence of products, on schedule with industry-leading quality and performance. Under his leadership, Arm’s engineering teams have doubled the number of products delivered in line with the growth of Arm and its expansion into new markets.
He started his career at Inmos working as a Design Engineer on analog and digital electronics. Gary holds a BEng degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Kevork Kechichian
Executive Vice President, Solutions Engineering
Kevork is leading the team that works closely with Arm’s world-class partner ecosystem to develop and accelerate our technologies as we keep ahead of changing market needs.
His career spans 30 years in various semiconductor engineering and leadership roles. Before joining Arm, he was the Executive Vice President of MCU/MPU Engineering at NXP Semiconductors where he led the company’s global architecture and IP & SoC design. Previously, he was the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Qualcomm where he managed the Snapdragon SoC and Technology teams and was responsible for delivering more than 100 SoCs in leading-edge technologies, enabling breakthrough products in mobile and consumer markets.
Kevork holds a BEng degree in Electrical Engineering from American University of Beirut and a MS in Electrical Engineering from Concordia University.