Henry Nicholas III

Henry Nicholas III studied electrical engineering at UCLA, where Henry Samueli supervised his doctoral work, and worked at defense contractor TRW and at PairGain Technologies before co-founding Broadcom. His sister Marsy was murdered in 1983, and he later funded Marsy's Law, the crime victims' rights measure California voters approved in 2008 and that other states have since adopted.

Henry Nicholas III co-founded Broadcom Corporation with Samueli in 1991 and was its president and CEO through the cable modem boom, the April 1998 IPO and a string of stock-funded acquisitions in 1999 and 2000. He resigned in January 2003. In 2008 federal prosecutors indicted him on stock-option backdating charges and, separately, on drug charges. Judge Cormac Carney dismissed the backdating case in December 2009, citing prosecutorial misconduct, and the drug charges were dismissed in January 2010. He has no operating role at today's Broadcom Inc. Henry Nicholas III was born in 1959.