About Robin Saxby

He was born in Derbyshire, educated at Chesterfield Boys Grammar and obtained a Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics) from Liverpool University where he is now a Visiting Professor.

His early career was in design and development with Rank Bush Murphy and Pye TMC. He spent eleven years with Motorola Semiconductors in a variety of sales, marketing and engineering management roles, before taking up the post as Chief Executive Officer of Henderson Security Systems. He subsequently moved back to the semiconductor electronic industry as UK Managing Director, Vice-President Northern Europe and Head of the US branch, of European Silicon Structures.

He started with ARM in 1991 with backing from Acorn, Apple and VLSI Technology. ARM is one of the outstanding British engineering successes in the last 40 years. It has pioneered a new technology, a new business model and rose in 10 short years from a 12 person start up to a FTSE-100 company.

Sir Robin and colleagues built ARM from start-up to the global giant it is today. He has held almost every senior position in the company including Chief Executive Officer, President and Executive Chairman, and is the global name synonymous with the company that designs microchips for 90 percent of the world’s mobile phones and is today at the heart of the development of countless digital technology products, including via Microsoft iPad and iPhone 4.

Sir Robin was knighted in the 2002 New Year Honours list for services to the information technology industry.