About: Henry Samueli

“Henry Samueli (born September 20, 1954 in Buffalo, New York) is co-founder and chief technology officer of the Broadcom Corporation and a philanthropist in the Orange County, California community. In 2007 Forbes placed Samueli’s net worth at $2.3 billion. He currently resides in Corona del Mar, California.”

Education

“Samueli’s parents, Sala and Aron, were Polish Jewish immigrants who survived Nazi Europe and arrived in the United States with almost nothing. Samueli stocked shelves in his family’s Los Angeles liquor store and graduated from Fairfax High School.”

“Samueli attended UCLA, where he received his bachelor’s degree (1975), master’s degree (1976), and Ph.D (1980), all in the field of electrical engineering. His Ph.D. dissertation is entitled “Nonperiodic forced overflow oscillations in digital filters”.”

Broadcom Origins

“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. Each invested in $5,000 and worked out of Nicholas’ Redondo Beach home, moving to Irvine four years later and took the firm public three years after that. In 1998, when Broadcom became a publicly traded company, Samueli stopped working as a professor, but the UCLA Department of Electrical Engineering still maintains his name on the list of faculty.”

Anaheim Ducks Ownership

“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 for $75 million. Samueli also owns the company that operates the city-owned Honda Center, the home of the Ducks. The Anaheim Ducks are now worth a reported value of $197 million.”

“Under the ownership of Samueli and his wife Susan, the Anaheim Ducks won the 2007 Stanley Cup championship.”

Philanthropy

“The schools of engineering at UC Irvine and UCLA, where he is a professor, were renamed after Samueli after he donated $20 million and $30 million, respectively, to each in 1999. Samueli’s donation founded the Sala and Aron Samueli Holocaust Memorial Library at Chapman University, which was dedicated in 2005.”

“He is Jewish and has been known for helping many Israeli causes.”

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