Henry Samueli

Henry Samueli (born September 20, 1954 in Buffalo, New York) is co-founder and chief technology officer of the Broadcom Corporation and a philanthropist in the Orange County, California community. In 2007 Forbes placed Samueli's net worth at $2.3 billion. He currently resides in Corona del Mar, California. Samueli's parents, Sala and Aron, were Polish Jewish immigrants who survived Nazi Europe and arrived in the United States with almost nothing.... more

Henry Samueli (born September 20, 1954 in Buffalo, New York) is co-founder and chief technology officer of the Broadcom Corporation and a philanthropist in the Orange County, California community. In 2007 Forbes placed Samueli's net worth at $2.3 billion. He currently resides in Corona del Mar, California. Samueli's parents, Sala and Aron, were Polish Jewish immigrants who survived Nazi Europe and arrived in the United States with almost nothing. Samueli stocked shelves in his family's Los Angeles liquor store and graduated from Fairfax High School. 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. dissertation is entitled "Nonperiodic forced overflow oscillations in digital filters". 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. Each invested in $5,000 and... less