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Rene is the Chief Executive Officer at Arm, having been promoted to this role in February 2022 after 10 years and 7 months with the company in various leadership positions. With over 35 years of experience in executive management, engineering, marketing, and sales, he has worked for both Fortune 1000 technology companies and high-profile startups. Rene is known for his strategic acumen, ability to lead cross-functional teams, and international business expertise, which have led to significant achievements. He also serves as a Board Member at SoftBank Group Corp. Previously, he was a Non-Executive Director at Mythic from April 2018 to January 2023 and at Computacenter from August 2019 to November 2022. Prior to these roles, Rene held leadership positions at NVIDIA, Scintera Networks, and Tensilica. He completed an Executive Education Program at Stanford University Graduate School of Business and holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Clarkson University.

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Keiichi is the Managing Director at Applied Materials since January 2020. Prior to this role, he held five positions at the company, including Senior Director of Business Management, Director of Business Management, Marketing Manager, Global Product Manager, and Global Product Support. Keiichi studied Chemical Engineering at Chiba University from 1991 to 1995.

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SoftBank Group Corp. is a Japanese multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, and focusses on investment management. The Group primarily invests in companies operating in technology, energy, and financial sectors. It also runs the Vision Fund, the worlds largest technology-focused venture capital fund, with over $100 billion in capital. Fund investors include sovereign wealth funds from countries in the Middle East.

The company is known for the leadership of its founder and largest shareholder Masayoshi Son. It operates in broadband, fixed-line telecommunications, e-commerce, information technology, finance, media and marketing, and other areas. SoftBank Corporation, its spun-out affiliate and former flagship business, is the third-largest wireless carrier in Japan, with 45.621 million subscribers as of March 2021.

SoftBank was ranked in the 2017 Forbes Global 2000 list as the 36th largest public company in the world and the second-largest publicly traded company in Japan after Toyota.

The logo of SoftBank is based on the flag of the Kaientai, a naval trading company founded in 1865, near the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, by Sakamoto Ryma.

Although SoftBank does not affiliate itself to any traditional keiretsu, it has close ties with Mizuho Financial Group, its primary lender.

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