Sir Robin Saxby FREng was Chief Executive and then Chairman of ARM Holdings

ARM Holdings

ARM Holdings plc is a British multinational semiconductor and software company headquartered in Cambridge. Its largest business is in processors, although it also designs, licenses and sells software development tools under the RealView and KEIL brands, systems and platforms, system-on-a-chip...

 which he built to become the dominant supplier of embedded microprocessor architectures.

He was born in 1947 in Derbyshire

Derbyshire

Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England. A substantial portion of the Peak District National Park lies within Derbyshire. The northern part of Derbyshire overlaps with the Pennines, a famous chain of hills and mountains. The county contains within its boundary of approx...

, educated at Liverpool University and worked at Rank Bush Murphy, Pye, Motorola and Henderson Security.
Immediately prior to his appointment at ARM, he worked at European Silicon Structures.

In 1991 he joined Cambridge-based ARM as their first CEO and built it to "a global giant" with offices round the world.

He holds a BEng in Electronics and is a chartered engineer, HonFIET and FREng. He has an honorary doctorate from the University of Liverpool (where he is a visiting professor) and also from Loughborough University and the University of Essex.

He received the Faraday Medal of the IEE (now the IET

Institution of Engineering and Technology

The Institution of Engineering and Technology is a British professional body for those working in engineering and technology in the United Kingdom and worldwide. It was formed in 2006 from two separate institutions: the Institution of Electrical Engineers , dating back to 1871, and the...

). He was knighted in the 2002 New Year's Honours List. He became President of the IET on 1 October 2006 and stepped down on 30 September 2007.