Arm Holdings plc (ARM)

Rene Haas has been chief executive and a director since February 2022. He joined Arm in October 2013 to run strategic alliances, became chief commercial officer two years later and led its IP product groups from January 2017; before Arm he spent seven years at NVIDIA running its computing products business. He has sat on SoftBank Group's board since June 2023, and in April 2026 he also became chief executive of SoftBank Group International. Jason Child, chief financial officer since November 2022, came from the same post at Splunk after more than 11 years in finance at Amazon. Richard Grisenthwaite, the chief architect, joined in March 1997 and has led the architecture's development for more than 20 years; Will Abbey, chief commercial officer since April 2023, joined in 2004. 123456789

SoftBank Group controls the company. It owned about 86.4% of the shares in May 2026, has pledged shares equal to a 72.0% stake as security for an 8.5 billion dollar loan taken by one of its subsidiaries, and designated every non-executive director. Its founder, Masayoshi Son, has chaired Arm's board since March 2018. Beside him sit Ronald D. Fisher, on SoftBank Group's board from 1997 and its vice chairman from 2017 to 2022, and directors from the industry: Paul E. Jacobs, once chief executive of Qualcomm; Young Sohn, once president and chief strategy officer of Samsung Electronics; Rosemary Schooler, after 33 years at Intel; Karen E. Dykstra, once chief financial officer of VMware; and Jeffrey A. Sine of The Raine Group. The insider record this site holds begins on a single day in March 2026, when all fifteen filers on it, SoftBank Group included, first filed. 101112131415161718192021

Arm employed 9,584 people in 19 countries at the end of March 2026, up from 8,330 a year earlier, and about 84% of them work in engineering. The largest group, 3,943, is in the United Kingdom, followed by 2,023 in the United States and 1,829 in India; over the year it also used an average of 2,820 temporary workers. Employees in France and Hungary are represented by works councils, and the company says it has never had a work stoppage. In October 2025 it began a restructuring to align its engineering workforce with its strategic business activities. 22232425