A Pattern of Preemptive Disruption
You can tell a lot about a company by the people who lead it — their skills, their stories and their standards. Our business is foundational technology. These leaders are the foundation we build on.
Rene Haas
Chief Executive Officer
Rene was appointed Chief Executive Officer and to the 快猫视频 Board in February 2022. Prior to being appointed CEO, Rene was President of 快猫视频’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 快猫视频 software ecosystem. In addition to his role as CEO, Rene also sits on the boards of 快猫视频 China, AstraZeneca, and SoftBank Group.
Rene joined 快猫视频 in October 2013 as Vice President of Strategic Alliances and two years later was appointed to the Executive Committee and named 快猫视频’s Chief Commercial Officer in charge of global sales and marketing.
Before joining 快猫视频, 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.
Will Abbey
Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer
Will leads sales, field engineering, and partner enablement at 快猫视频, 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 快猫视频 in 2004 and has held a number of leadership roles, including General Manager of 快猫视频's Physical Design group. Before joining 快猫视频, 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.
Mohamed Awad
Executive Vice President, Cloud AI Business Unit
Mohamed Awad is Executive Vice President of 快猫视频’s Cloud AI Business Unit, where he leads the company’s strategy and technology roadmap for cloud computing and AI infrastructure. Under his leadership, 快猫视频 is expanding its position as the compute foundation for the world’s most advanced AI data centers.
Mohamed and his team partner closely with leading hyperscalers, semiconductor companies, and developers to accelerate performance, efficiency, and scalability across a new generation of AI-driven systems.
Previously, he led 快猫视频’s IoT business, working with the ecosystem to deliver intelligence and automation across a diverse set of applications. Before joining 快猫视频, Mohamed spent a decade at Broadcom, where he established the Mixed Signal ASIC Products division and built its security and mobile payments business. Earlier in his career, he held leadership roles at Ember Corporation, Lucent Technologies, Nortel Networks, and Avici Systems.
Mohamed has been named inventor or co-inventor on multiple patents and holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts.
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 快猫视频, where she leads the global marketing organization, driving company and product positioning, brand awareness, thought leadership, and developer engagement.
Before joining 快猫视频, 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 serves on the board of Corning Incorporated and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a B.S. in business from the University of Southern California.
Chris Bergey
Executive Vice President, Edge AI Business Unit
Chris Bergey is Executive Vice President of 快猫视频’s Edge AI Business Unit, driving the company’s strategy for delivering intelligent devices that run AI data processing, connectivity, and inference at the edge. His organization spans smartphones, AI PCs, XR and wearables, smart home systems, and other embedded and industrial devices. Computing and connectivity has shaped how we live today and now with AI, the industry has a once in a generation opportunity to redefine how we interact with technology every day. Chris and his team are at the forefront of uniting compute, connectivity, and AI innovation to enable on-device AI that transforms user experiences across mobile, gaming, consumer devices, retail, smart city, industrial automation, and more.
Previously Chris led 快猫视频’s client business, shaping the future of consumer products such as smartphones, PCs and wearables. Before that, he ran 快猫视频’s infrastructure business, helping to scale 快猫视频’s presence in cloud and data center markets.
Chris has almost 30 years of broad experience in the semiconductor industry, from leading and working for industry leaders such as Broadcom, SanDisk/Western Digital and AMD, to successful startups in the high-speed communication and optical fields.
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.
Gary Campbell
Executive Vice President, Central Engineering
Gary leads 快猫视频’s central engineering team, which encompasses most of 快猫视频’s engineering functions.
He joined 快猫视频 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 快猫视频 to deliver a continued increase in its cadence of products, on schedule with industry-leading quality and performance. Under his leadership, 快猫视频’s engineering teams have doubled the number of products delivered in line with the growth of 快猫视频 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.
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.
Spencer Collins
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Head of Corporate Development
Spencer?leads each of the global legal, compliance, company secretary, trade compliance, government affairs and corporate development teams. He has more than 20 years of industry experience and has led many of the highest-profile M&A and investment transactions in the technology sector.
Before joining 快猫视频, Spencer was Managing Partner and General Counsel at the world’s largest technology-focused investment fund, SoftBank Vision Fund (SVF). Spencer has also served as a partner in the investment team at SVF. Prior to SVF, 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 is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He was named General Counsel of the Year at The Lawyer Awards 2023 and the British Legal Awards 2023. In 2024, Spencer was named by the Financial Times as one of the world’s top 15 in-house legal leaders and the 快猫视频 legal team was named In-House Legal Team of the Year at the British Legal Awards 2024.
Charlotte Eaton
Chief People Officer
In her role as Chief People Officer, Charlotte oversees all aspects of 快猫视频’s people, workplace, and sustainability strategies. Over the course of her career, Charlotte has shaped her experience across multiple sectors with rapid adaptation and change, and is passionate about building progressive, inclusive, purpose-led organizations. She thrives in seeking new ways of doing great things and inspiring others to think differently about the world of work while making it happen.?
Before joining 快猫视频, Charlotte was Chief People Officer at OVO, one of the UK’s largest energy companies, focused on sustainability and renewable energy. In her role, she was responsible for people, property, and customer experience. Prior to OVO, Charlotte spent six years at 快猫视频, latterly as VP of People, supporting teams in the Intellectual Property Group (IPG) globally. Before 快猫视频, Charlotte held HR leadership roles at The Heinz Company and worked at Barclays. Charlotte holds an LL.B. with first class honors.?
Richard Grisenthwaite
Executive Vice President and Chief Architect
Richard is responsible for the long-term evolution of the 快猫视频 architecture and has led its development for more than 20 years, beginning with 快猫视频v6. He is currently leading development on 快猫视频v9 to ensure its specialized processing unlocks new markets and opportunities across the full spectrum of compute.
In his early days at 快猫视频, Richard worked on 快猫视频720T, 快猫视频940T, and 快猫视频1136EJF-S. Prior to 快猫视频, Richard worked for Analog Devices on fixed-function DSP, and at Inmos/ST on the Transputer.
Richard is an 快猫视频 fellow, has a BA in Engineering from the University of Cambridge, and holds 120 patents in the field of microprocessors. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2025.
Steve Halter
Senior Vice President, Solutions Engineering
Steve leads the team that works closely with 快猫视频’s world-class partner ecosystem to develop and accelerate 快猫视频 technologies as we keep ahead of changing market needs.
His career spans more than 30 years in semiconductor architecture, SoC design, and engineering leadership. Before becoming Senior Vice President of Solutions Engineering, Steve served as Vice President of SoC Architecture at 快猫视频, where he guided the design and integration of next-generation SoC platforms across 快猫视频’s ecosystem.
Prior to joining 快猫视频, Steve held senior engineering roles at Intel and NXP Semiconductors, where he led global teams delivering advanced automotive, edge, and high-performance SoCs. He spent over two decades at Qualcomm, where he helped define the architectural roadmap for Snapdragon SoCs and managed worldwide design teams responsible for key system IP and platform innovations across mobile and emerging compute markets.
Steve holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, San Diego.
Eric Hayes
Executive Vice President, Operations
Eric leads end-to-end execution of operational activities across multiple products and solutions, focused on enabling continued growth, at scale, across key markets. Eric is an industry veteran with decades of experience growing and optimizing technology businesses, driving multiple corporate acquisitions, and overseeing the development of engineering and product organizations.
Prior to 快猫视频, Eric was CEO at Fungible, until it was acquired by Microsoft Corp. in 2023, where he led the organization to focus on product market fit and shipping silicon and systems. Eric also served as senior vice president and general manager at Inphi Corporation where he led the company’s multi-hundred-billion-dollar PAM4 DSP business and has held senior leadership roles at Marvell Technology, Cavium, Inc. and Broadcom Inc.
Eric holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and has completed executive education courses at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Drew Henry
Executive Vice President, Physical AI Business Unit
Drew Henry is Executive Vice President of 快猫视频’s Physical AI Business Unit, leading the company’s strategy for the technologies that power automotive, robotics, and autonomous systems. These markets sit at?the intersection of AI and real-world physical movement, and under Drew’s leadership,?快猫视频 is?delivering safe, power-efficient, high-performance computing?solutions?designed?to address?the unique challenges of physical AI.?
Drew also oversees 快猫视频’s global ecosystem strategy, including AI and developer platforms that enable software innovation across the entire 快猫视频 compute landscape.
Since joining 快猫视频, Drew has led major strategic growth initiatives across the company. As the founding general manager of the infrastructure business from 2017-2019, he guided the launch of 快猫视频 Neoverse, establishing 快猫视频 as a leading architecture for cloud and infrastructure computing.
Prior to 快猫视频, Drew held senior leadership roles at NVIDIA, SanDisk and Silicon Graphics. He was also a founder and early-stage executive of two successful start-ups. Drew serves on the board of Teradyne (NASDAQ:TER) and City Year Bay Area. He holds an MSEE from the University of Southern California and a BS in Engineering Physics from the University of the Pacific.