British chip designer Arm chief executive officer Simon Segars has pulled out of the Saudi Arabia investment conference this week, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on 22 October.
Segars is the latest among several high-profile company executives to pull out of the conference amid mounting pressure on Riyadh over the disappearance and alleged killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi .
Arm Holdings was acquired by SoftBank Group in 2016 for $32 billion.
Bloomberg reported earlier on 22 october that SoftBank chief operating officer Marcelo Claure will not be attending the Saudi Arabia investment conference this week.
Softbank’s Vision Fund , nearly half of whose $93 billion in funding came from Saudi Arabia, acquired a 25 percent stake in Arm from SoftBank last year, among the fund’s largest deals to date.