Henry Samueli (Technology) – Overview, Biography

Name:Henry Samueli
Occupation: Technology
Gender:Male
Birth Day: September 20,
1954
Age: 66
Birth Place: Newport Beach, California,
United States
Zodiac Sign:Libra

Henry Samueli

Henry Samueli was born on September 20, 1954 in Newport Beach, California, United States (66 years old). Henry Samueli is a Technology, zodiac sign: Libra. Nationality: United States. Approx. Net Worth: $3.8 Billion. With the net worth of $3.8 Billion, Henry Samueli is the #410 richest person on earth all the time in our database.

Net Worth 2020

$3.8 Billion
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Family Members

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#2Susan Samueli Spouse N/A N/A N/A

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Biography

Biography Timeline

1991

In 1991, while still working as a professor at UCLA, Samueli co-founded Broadcom Corporation with one of his Ph.D. students, Henry Nicholas. Each invested $5,000 and initially worked out of Nicholas’ Redondo Beach home. They rented their first office in 1992 in Westwood, CA near the UCLA campus and moved to Irvine, CA in 1995 at which time Samueli took a leave of absence from UCLA to be at Broadcom full-time. Broadcom went public three years after that. Samueli still remains on leave from UCLA and he continues to be listed on the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department faculty roster.

1998

After Broadcom went public in 1998 the Samueli Foundation was created. The foundation focuses its giving in the areas of education, health, youth services, and Jewish culture and values. In 2012 the Samuelis joined the Giving Pledge, initiated by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates, whose members pledge the majority of their wealth to philanthropy.

1999

Given Henry Samueli’s background in engineering and education, some of their earliest philanthropic gifts were in these areas. In 1999 the Samuelis made major donations to the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science and the UC Irvine School of Engineering, both of which have since been named after him.

2000

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.

2001

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.

2003

In 2003 the Samuelis purchased the management contract for the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim sports and entertainment venue, creating Anaheim Arena Management, LLC, to oversee all operations of the arena, and in 2005 they purchased the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim National Hockey League (NHL) club, the arena’s largest tenant, from the Walt Disney Company for $75 million. In 2006, the Samuelis announced the team’s name change to the Anaheim Ducks and the arena’s name change to Honda Center. In 2007 the Anaheim Ducks became the first California team ever to win the Stanley Cup championship.

2006

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.

2008

On May 15, 2008, Samueli resigned as Chairman of the Board and took a leave of absence as Chief Technology Officer after being named in a civil complaint by the SEC.

On June 23, 2008, Samueli pleaded guilty for lying to SEC for $2.2 billion of backdating. Under the plea bargain, Samueli agreed to a sentence of five years probation, a $250,000 criminal fine, and a $12 million payment to the US Treasury.

On September 8, 2008, U.S. District Court Judge Cormac Carney rejected the plea deal that called for Samueli to receive probation, writing: “The court cannot accept a plea agreement that gives the impression that justice is for sale”.

2009

In 2009 Henry Samueli was a founding director of the Broadcom Foundation, a 501c(3) corporate nonprofit, and he is the chair of this philanthropy that advances science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Broadcom Foundation sponsors the Broadcom MASTERS (Math, Applied Science, Technology and Engineering for Rising Stars) and the Broadcom MASTERS International, programs of Society for Science and the Public that inspire middle school students to continue math and science courses into high school in order to create pathways to STEM careers. Samueli was inspired by his own seventh grade experience of building a short wave radio from a Heathkit for innovation that he funded the Marconi/Samueli Award for Innovation with his Marconi Award. Henry and Susan Samueli also sponsor the top prize, the $25,000 Samueli Foundation Prize in the Broadcom MASTERS.

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.”

2015

In 2015 the Samuelis acquired ownership of the Ducks’ American Hockey League affiliate, the Norfolk Admirals. They subsequently moved the franchise to San Diego as part of the AHL’s western expansion that year and the team was re-branded as the fourth incarnation of the San Diego Gulls.

In 2015, Samueli received a prize from the Israeli government for his global contribution to innovation and his contribution to innovation in Israel, at the “Innovex” conference for innovation in technology.

2017

In 2017 Forbes reported the Anaheim Ducks were worth $415 million.

2019

In June 2019, UCLA announced a $100-million gift from Samueli and his wife, Susan. The gift will be used to expand the engineering school.

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