Robin Saxby

Saxby was born in 1947 in Derbyshire and was educated at Chesterfield Grammar School, a boys' grammar school. He attended the University of Liverpool, where he gained a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics in 1968.

Saxby had an electronics kit at the age of eight and a television repair business at the age of 14. Reflecting on this in 2006, he considered himself "destined for the electronics industry".{{cite news | url=http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/15/04/2008/37744/Q5-Sir-Robin-Saxby-chairman-of-ARM.htm | title=Q5: Sir Robin Saxby, chairman of ARM | work=Electronics Weekly | date=24 February 2006 | access-date=21 March 2012 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111228172330/http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/15/04/2008/37744/Q5-Sir-Robin-Saxby-chairman-of-ARM.htm | archive-date=28 December 2011 }} He 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 chief executive officer (CEO) and built it to "a global giant" with offices round the world.[https://web.archive.org/web/20080706002158/http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article727527.ece The Andrew Davidson Interview: ARM chairman steps down, but not out] Sunday Times 28 May 2006 He was chief executive from 1991 to 2001, and subsequently chairman from 2001 to 2006. When he was appointed CEO in 1991, he took 12 engineers from Acorn Computers into the newly formed joint venture between Acorn and Apple Inc, with an $1.5 million investment from Apple. Saxby introduced the licensing model for selling microprocessors, which led to a 95% market share in the mobile phone sector. Arm is now into the world's most successful processor company, with over 50 billion units shipped{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151220210022/https://community.arm.com/community/news/blog/2014/02/12/celebrating-50-billion-shipped-arm-powered-chips|archive-date=2015-12-20|url=https://community.arm.com/community/news/blog/2014/02/12/celebrating-50-billion-shipped-arm-powered-chips|publisher=ARM holdings|title=Celebrating 50 Billion shipped ARM-powered Chips}} to date. During his 10 years as CEO, ARM became the most valuable company in the Cambridge cluster, with a market capitalisation of over $10bn. ARM under his leadership became a global company with offices in many countries and licences taken by all significant semiconductor companies in the world.

Since his retirement from ARM, he has become a promoter of young entrepreneurs and is involved in a number of start-up companies which he supports with advice and finance.{{Cite web

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Saxby is a chartered engineer, an honorary fellow of the IET and a fellow{{cite web|title=List of Fellows|url=http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/people-council-committees/the-fellowship/list-of-fellows|access-date=23 October 2014|archive-date=8 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160608094405/http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/people-council-committees/the-fellowship/list-of-fellows|url-status=dead}} of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He has honorary doctorates from the University of Liverpool (where he is a visiting professor), Loughborough University,{{Cite web

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}} the University of Essex, Nottingham Trent University and Anglia Ruskin University.{{Cite web

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He received the Faraday Medal of the IEE (now the IET). He was knighted in the 2002 New Year Honours List. He became president of the IET on 1 October 2006[http://www.theiet.org/about/media-centre/press-releases/20070618_1.cfm IET press release] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071120052415/http://www.theiet.org/about/media-centre/press-releases/20070618_1.cfm |date=20 November 2007 }} and stepped down on 30 September 2007. In 2013 he presented the IET prestigious Pinkerton Lecture at the Infosys auditorium in Bangalore, India. He was president of the Old Cestrefeldians Society 2012/13.{{Cite web

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}} Saxby was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015.{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117101445/https://royalsociety.org/people/robin-saxby-12233/|archive-date=2015-11-17|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/robin-saxby-12233/|publisher=Royal Society|location=London|title=Sir Robin Saxby FREng FRS Honorary Fellow}} One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: {{quote|“All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --{{cite web |url=https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/ |title=Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies |access-date=2016-03-09 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925220834/https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/ |archive-date=September 25, 2015 }}}}

Saxby received the 2019 IEEE Founders Medal “For achievements in developing a globally successful electronics enterprise with an innovative approach to licensing of Intellectual Property.”

Saxby married Patricia Bell in 1970. They have a son and a daughter.

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