Henry Samueli (born September 20, 1954) is an American businessman, engineer, and philanthropist. He is the co-founder of Broadcom, owner of the Anaheim Ducks, and a prominent philanthropist in the Orange County, California community. He is a named inventor in 70 U.S. patents. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) and a Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). In 2016, Forbes placed Samueli’s net worth at $3.1 billion. He currently resides in Corona del Mar, California. In 2012, Samueli won the Marconi Prize and Fellowship.
Education
Samueli’s parents, Sala and Aron, were Polish Jewish immigrants who survived the Nazi occupation of Europe and arrived in the United States with almost nothing. Samueli stocked shelves in his family’s Los Angeles liquor store and graduated from Bancroft Junior High School and Fairfax High School. Samueli became interested in electronics when he took a shop class at Bancroft.
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. advisor was Alan N. Willson Jr. and his Ph.D. dissertation is entitled “Nonperiodic forced overflow oscillations in digital filters”
Henry Samueli Net Worth: Henry Samueli is the owner of the Anaheim Ducks hockey team as well as the co-founder of Broadcom Corporation and a professor at the UCLA School of Engineering. Henry Samueli has a net worth of $3.8 billion dollars. Born in Buffalo, New York on September 20, 1954, Samueli has his name tagged seventy times as an inventor on U.S. patents. He follows Judaism and is married to Susan Samueli with three children. He studied at UCLA where he received his Bachelor’s, Master’s and Ph.D in Engineering and currently teaches. He co-founded Broadcom Corporation in 1991 with Henry Nicholas and purchased the Anaheim Ducks in 2005. Throughout his career he has received the UCLA Medal in 2010, the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award in 2011, and the Marconi Prize and Fellowship in 2012. He is a known philanthropist and has contributed to several organizations including The Orangewood Children’s Foundation, Kidworks Hillview Acres, and The Sala and Aron Samueli Holocaust Library at Chapman University.
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