Warren East


Warren Arthur East is the chief executive officer of Rolls-Royce Holdings, a leading UK-based engine manufacturer. He previously held senior positions at ARM Holdings and Texas Instruments.

Education

East attended Monmouth School and earned a bachelor's degree in engineering science from Wadham College, Oxford. He went on to earn a Master of Business Administration degree from Cranfield School of Management at Cranfield University.

Career

After 11 years with the chip maker Texas Instruments, East left in 1994 to join ARM Holdings, the British fabless manufacturing microprocessor design and software company. At ARM he established the company's consulting business.
East later became VP of business operations at ARM. Within three years he was appointed to the board as chief operating officer. East was appointed CEO of ARM Holdings in October 2001. He moved on from ARM on 1 July 2013, and was succeeded by Simon Segars.
In 2014 East became a non-executive director of Rolls-Royce Holdings and chair of the board's technology committee. In April 2015 Rolls-Royce announced that East would succeed John Rishton as CEO, when Rishton retired on 2 July.

Honours and awards

East was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2014 New Year Honours, for services to the technology industry. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2007 and a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society in 2013. Also in 2013 he presented the Higginson Lecture in Durham University. In 2017 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute.

Personal life

East is married and has three children, and lives in Cambridgeshire.