Sir Robin Saxby is a Founder - Director of Arolla Partners Ltd. He was the founding CEO and Chairman of ARM Holdings plc, the world’s leading Semiconductor Intellectual Property Company, which he led from start up at the end of 1990 to flotation on NASDAQ and the LSE in 1998. He retired from ARM at the end of September 2007. He served as President of The IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology), the largest professional engineering institution headquartered in Europe from 2006 to 2007, where he is still an active Fellow and Council Member.

Robin served as Managing Director of ES2 Ltd, a silicon ASIC Company between 1986 and 1990. He was CEO of Henderson Security Systems Limited from 1984 to 1986.
His earlier career was at Motorola Semiconductors in a variety of sales, marketing and engineering management roles from 1973 to 1984 and before that he was in design and development with Rank Bush Murphy and Pye TMC.

Sir Robin holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Liverpool, Loughborough and Essex. He received his B Eng Electronics in 1968 at the University of Liverpool and has been a visiting professor there since 1999. He is a Faraday medallist of the IET and has served as Chairman of the Open Microprocessor Initiative Advisory Group, a European Union panel advising on collaborative R&D activity in Europe. He is a Fellow of The Royal Academy of Engineering and an Honary Fellow of the IET. He has served as a Non Executive Director of Glotel plc and Sirius Communications, both of which, were sold.