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Henry Samueli (b. 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, Samueli co-founded his company, Broadcom Corporation, with one of his former students, Henry Nicholas, while still working as a professor at UCLA. 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 bought the NHL's Mighty Ducks of Anaheim from the Walt Disney Company. Samueli also owns the company that operates the city-owned Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim, the home of the Ducks.
Forbes has placed Samueli's net worth at $1.8 billion.
Education
Samueli received all 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 PhD in 1980 with the dissertation titled "Nonperiodic forced overflow oscillations in digital filters"
External links
- Samueli's biography at the UCLA Department of Electrical Engineering
- The Samueli Foundation
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