Henry Samueli

Quick Facts

Full Name	Henry Samueli
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Date Of Birth	Sep 20, 1954(1954-09-20)
Age	70
Birthplace	Buffalo
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Virgo

Henry Samueli Biography

Henry Samueli is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on September 20, 1954 in Buffalo, New York, United States. Henry Samueli, born September 20, 1954, is an American engineer, businessman, and philanthropist. He is also the co-founder and owner of Broadcom Corporation, the National Hockey League’s Anaheim Ducks. He is also a prominent philanthropist within Orange County, California. Broadcom Inc.’s Chairman. He is also a Professor on leave in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of UCLA and a Distinguished Adjunct professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of UC Irvine. He is an honorary doctorate holder from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology and National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan.

Henry Samueli was an engineer and educator so some of their first philanthropic donations were made in these areas. The Samuelis made significant donations in 1999 to the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science and UC Irvine School of Engineering. Both have been named after him.

Some of the other major naming gifts of the Samueli Foundation include the Samueli Theater at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in 2000, the Samueli Jewish Campus in Irvine, CA in 2001, the Sala and Aron Samueli Holocaust Memorial Library at Chapman University in 2003, the Samueli Academy, a public Charter High School in Santa Ana, CA for community, underserved, and foster teens in 2013.

A major passion of Susan Samueli is in the areas of complementary and alternative medicine and integrative health and wellness. In 2001 the Samuelis established the Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine at UC Irvine. They have also supported the research of the John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica, California, in cancer prevention and treatment. In 2017, the Samuelis made a transformational $200 million gift to UC Irvine to create the Susan and Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences, a first-of-its-kind College of Health Sciences focused on interdisciplinary integrative health. As part of the gift, the existing Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine was elevated to become the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute.

The Samueli Foundation was established in 1998 after Broadcom went public. The foundation’s giving is focused on education, health, youth services, as well as Jewish culture and values. The Samuelis signed the Giving Pledge in 2012, which was initiated by Warren Buffett, Bill and Melinda Gates. Members pledge to give a majority of their wealth for philanthropy.

Henry Samueli Net Worth

Henry Samueli is one of the richest Entrepreneur from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Henry Samueli 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Samueli was a UCLA student and received his bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D degrees in electrical engineering. His Ph.D. advisor, Alan N. Willson Jr., was his dissertation entitled “Nonperiodic forced flow oscillations in digital filter”.

Samueli, a UCLA professor, co-founded Broadcom Corporation in 1991 with Henry Nicholas, a Ph.D. student. Each of them invested $5,000 and worked initially out of Nicholas’ Redondo Beach house. In 1992, they rented their first office near UCLA in Westwood, CA. Samueli then moved to Irvine, CA in 1995. Three years later, Broadcom was publicly traded. Samueli is still on leave at UCLA and is listed on the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department faculty list.

During the technology boom in the 2000s, Samueli and Broadcom co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III awarded millions of stock options to attract and reward employees. Prosecutors alleged Samueli and Nicholas granted options to others, including some other top executives, but not themselves, to avoid having to report $2.2 billion in compensation costs to shareholders. In 2006 both the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice began investigating Broadcom Corporation for backdating of stock options.

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Who is Henry Samueli Dating?

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16 months later, on December 10, 2009, Judge Carney, after hearing the testimony of all the witnesses at the trial of CFO William Ruehle, dismissed the case against Samueli (as well as Ruehle and Nicholas), citing Samueli’s testimony as well as prosecutorial misconduct. In his ruling Judge Carney stated “The uncontroverted evidence at trial established that Dr. Samueli was a brilliant engineer and a man of incredible integrity. There was no evidence at trial to suggest that Dr. Samueli did anything wrong, let alone criminal. Yet, the government embarked on a campaign of intimidation and other misconduct to embarrass him and bring him down.” He further added in his ruling “Needless to say, the government’s treatment of Dr. Samueli was shameful and contrary to American values of decency and justice.” The judge ordered Dr. Samueli’s plea agreement to be “expunged” from his record and stated “Dr. Samueli now has a clean slate.”

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Henry Ranked on the list of most popular Entrepreneur. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Henry Samueli celebrates birthday on September 20 of every year.

He is a named inventor in 75 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 2012 Samueli won the Marconi Prize and Fellowship for “pioneering advances in the development and commercialization of analog and mixed signal circuits for modern communication systems, in particular the cable modem.

How did Henry Samueli make his money?

Samueli made his fortune after cofounding San Jose, California-based Broadcom , now one of the world’s largest semiconductor and infrastructure software companies, with Henry Nicholas in 1991. Broadcom was acquired by Avago Technologies in 2016 for $37 billion and renamed itself Broadcom Ltd.

Is UC Irvine an engineering school?

Home | The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine.

Does UCLA have an engineering program?

Computer Science and Engineering (B.S.) Electrical Engineering (B.S.) Materials Engineering (B.S.) Mechanical Engineering (B.S.)

How much is Henry Samueli worth?

7.2 billion USD (2022)

How much is Henry Nicholas worth?

6.4 billion USD (2022)