Sir Robin Keith Saxby FREng HonFRS was born on 4 February 1947 and is an English engineer who was chief executive and then chairman of ARM Holdings, which he built to become a dominant supplier of embedded systems.
12 Facts About Robin Saxby
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Robin Saxby attended the University of Liverpool, where he gained a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics in 1968.
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Robin Saxby had an electronics kit at the age of eight and a television repair business at the age of 14.
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Robin Saxby worked at Rank Bush Murphy, Pye, Motorola and Henderson Security.
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Robin Saxby was chief executive from 1991 to 2001, and subsequently chairman from 2001 to 2006.
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Robin Saxby has dedicated time to mentoring young entrepreneurs, helping them through difficult times and never losing faith in them.
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Robin Saxby is a chartered engineer, an honorary fellow of the IET and a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
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Robin Saxby has honorary doctorates from the University of Liverpool, Loughborough University, the University of Essex, Nottingham Trent University and Anglia Ruskin University.
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Robin Saxby received the Faraday Medal of the IEE.
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Robin Saxby was knighted in the 2002 New Year Honours List.
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Robin Saxby became president of the IET on 1 October 2006 and stepped down on 30 September 2007.
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Robin Saxby was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society in 2015.