Henry Samueli
Henry Samueli (born September 20, 1954 in Buffalo, New York) is co-founder, chairman, and chief technology officer of the Broadcom Corporation and a philanthropist in the Orange County, California community. The schools of engineering at UC Irvine and UCLA, where he is a professor, were renamed after him after he donated $20 million and $30 million, respectively, to each in 1999.
In 1991, while still working as a professor at UCLA, Samueli co-founded his company, Broadcom Corporation, with one of his former students, Henry Nicholas. In 1998, when Broadcom became a publicly traded company, Samueli stopped working as a professor, but he still maintains the title, and the UCLA Department of Electrical Engineering still maintains his name on the list of faculty.
In June 2005 he and his wife Susan bought the NHL's Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, now called the Anaheim Ducks, from the Walt Disney Company. Samueli also owns the company that operates the city-owned Honda Center, the home of the Ducks.
Under the ownership of him and his wife Susan the Anaheim Ducks won the 2007 Stanley Cup championship.
In 2006 Forbes placed Samueli's net worth at $2 billion.
Education
Samueli received all of his post-secondary degrees in the field of electrical engineering from UCLA. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in 1975 and 1976, respectively, and the Ph.D in 1980 with the dissertation titled "Nonperiodic forced counter overflow of specific oscillations in digital and analog filters"
Financial Investigation
Both the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as the Department of Justice have been investigating Broadcom Corporation for backdating of stock options. Although an internal Broadcom investigation cleared Samueli, in mid-February 2007, Samueli hired his own attorney confirming that "the company and Samueli were responding to investigators separately" [1].
External links
- Samueli's biography at the UCLA Department of Electrical Engineering
- The Samueli Foundation
- Henry and Susan Samueli honored
- 1954 births
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- American Jews
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- Anaheim Ducks
- Stanley Cup champions
- University of California, Irvine
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