Henry Samueli

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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 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.

In 2006 Forbes placed Samueli's net worth at $2 billion.

[edit] 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"