Henry Samueli

Henry Samueli grew up in Los Angeles and earned his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering at UCLA, where he later taught. His research in digital signal processing and integrated circuits underpinned the broadband chips Broadcom became known for. Before Broadcom he co-founded PairGain Technologies, a maker of telephone-line transmission equipment. The engineering schools at UCLA and UC Irvine are named after him, and he and his wife Susan own the Anaheim Ducks hockey team.

Henry Samueli co-founded Broadcom Corporation in Los Angeles in 1991 with Henry Nicholas III, his former doctoral student, and served as its chief technical officer while the company built chips for cable modems, set-top boxes, Ethernet and Wi-Fi. Broadcom listed on Nasdaq in April 1998. During the stock-option backdating investigations he pleaded guilty in June 2008 to making a false statement to the SEC, but Judge Cormac Carney vacated the plea in December 2009 and criticized the prosecutors' conduct. When Avago Technologies bought Broadcom Corporation in February 2016, Samueli joined the combined company's board, and he is chairman of Broadcom Inc.