Gene Haas learned the metalworking trade at an early age, working in local machine shops throughout college and high school. A few years after graduating, Mr. Haas opened his own shop where he machined parts for the electronics and aerospace industries. It had been there that he developed the industry’s first fully programmable collet indexer - a device that automatically re-positions parts for machining. In 1983, Mr. Haas formed Haas Automation, Inc., to manufacture and distribute the patented device.
Gene Haas originally attended California State University Northridge as an engineering major, but changed his major to finance and accounting. After graduating in 1975, finding the right job proved hard, so he chose to create their own opportunity.
Gene Haas opened Haas Automation and set his indexer into mass production. Because he was able to produce top quality products in a fraction of the cost of his competitors, his company grew even larger and expand until it had become the biggest machine tool manufacturer in the western world.
Founder of Haas Automation, Haas CNC Racing, and the own charity, Gene Haas truly knows how to bring achievement, passion, and charitable giving together. He has proven himself a successful business person and engineer and has demonstrated the importance of community and helping people in need of assistance.
In addition to all of those ventures, Gene Haas is a devoted and passionate philanthropist who uses his business expertise to enhance the local, state, national, and international community through charitable giving. Haas founded a non-profit organization in 1999 to finance all of the charities he regularly supports. Those nearest his heart would be the charitable organizations which help children and supply food to individuals in need.
