Henry Samueli, Broadcom Corporation on Entrepreneurship

Winter Quarter 2010 Entrepreneurship Seminar Series

Featuring Henry Samueli, Ph.D.
Co-founder
Broadcom Corporation

Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium
Free and open to the public

The Entrepreneurship Seminar Series provides a real-world introduction to the theory and practice of entrepreneurship.  Through a series of presentations by prestigious entrepreneurs and industry leaders, participants will explore the various organizational, strategic and financial challenges facing successful and unsuccessful entrepreneurs.  Topics include start-up strategies, business idea evaluation, business plan writing, and introduction to venture capital.

For a complete listing of Entrepreneurship Seminar Series guest speakers, please visit http://www.eng.uci.edu/events/entseminars.

About the Speaker:
Henry Samueli, Ph.D., is co-founder of Broadcom Corporation. Broadcom was founded in 1991, and is a global leader in providing semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications. Dr. Samueli is responsible for driving the vision of Broadcom’s research and development activities, as well as helping coordinate corporate-wide engineering development strategies. He has published more than 100 technical papers and is a named inventor of 50 U.S. patents.

The success of Broadcom Corporation has provided Dr. Henry and Susan Samueli the opportunity to support many worthwhile nonprofit organizations. Since Broadcom’s initial public offering in 1998, the Samueli Foundation has granted more than $200 million in gifts in the areas of education, health, social services, religion and culture, and the arts, including a $20 million donation to UC Irvine in 1999 that enabled the School of Engineering to support faculty research through endowed professorships, create competitive fellowships for graduate students and competitive scholarships for undergraduates, and support other priority projects in the School. In recognition of their support, UC Irvine’s engineering school was named The Henry Samueli School of Engineering. In addition, they gave $1.5 million to the School, which contributed to the establishment of the Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing.

Dr. Samueli was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2000, a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2003, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004. He received a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1975, 1976, and 1980, respectively.