Robin Saxby

About

Sir Robin Saxby FREng, FRS, FIET was the founding CEO and Chairman of ARM, the creator of the world’s most prolific microprocessor. (B150+ chips shipped to date used in IPhones, games TVs and cars). He led ARM from a 13 person start up to floatation on NASDAQ and London in 1998 and global success. (retiring in 2007) Today Robin is an angel investor & mentor in various UK technology start-ups and funds including Plessey, Libertine, Graphcore, Highlight Semiconductor and Amadeus. He served as Chairman of the Open Microprocessor Initiative Advisory Group, a European Union collaborative R&D programme. He received his knighthood in the New Years Honours list 2002 Robin is an active supporter of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Enterprise Hub. Awards include - Faraday medal (IET), Morris Chang Leadership award (GSA), Business Trans-formation (Wharton Infosys), Founders medal (IEEE) He holds Honorary Doctorates at the Universities of Liverpool, Loughborough, Essex, York, Anglia Ruski

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Location

Chesterfield, UK