Henry Samueli

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Henry Samueli (born September 20, 1954 in Buffalo , New York State , USA ) is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Broadcom Corporation and a philanthropist in Orange County , California . In January 2018, Forbes estimated Samueli's net worth at $ 4.1 billion. Today he lives in Newport Beach , California.

Life

George Bush and Henry Samueli

Samueli's parents, Sala and Aron, were Polish-Jewish immigrants. They came to the United States almost penniless. Samueli filled the shelves in his family's liquor store in Los Angeles and graduated from Fairfax High School.

Samueli graduated from UCLA , where he earned his bachelor's degree (1975), master's (1976), and Ph. D. (1980), all in the field of electrical engineering. His dissertation is titled "Nonperiodic forced overflow oscillations in digital filters" ( "Nonperiodic forced overflow oscillations in digital filters").

In 1991, while he was still a professor at UCLA, Samueli started his company, Broadcom Corporation, with one of his former students, Henry Nicholas. Each invested $ 5,000 and they worked in Nicholas' house in Redondo Beach. The move to Irvine followed . Samueli retired as a professor in 1998 when Broadcom became a public company, but his name is still on the faculty list of the UCLA Department of Electrical Engineering. In 2004 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

In June 2005, he and his wife Susan bought the NHL team franchise Mighty Ducks of Anaheim , now the Anaheim Ducks , from the Walt Disney Company for $ 75 million. Samueli also owns the company that runs the city's Honda Center , home of the Ducks. The Anaheim Ducks are worth $ 460 million as of November 2017.

Owned by Samueli and his wife Susan, the Anaheim Ducks won the 2007 Stanley Cup.

In 2012 Samueli was awarded the Marconi Prize for his scientific and technical achievements .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Forbes : Henry Samueli . Retrieved January 8, 2018.
  2. ^ Forbes : The Business Of Hockey: Anaheim Ducks . Retrieved January 8, 2018.

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personal data
SURNAME Samueli, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 20th September 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Buffalo