D r. Henry Samueli is an American self-made billionaire who is the co-founder of Broadcom Corporation, a major fabless semiconductor company that became a leader in chips for the broadband communications market. A brilliant engineer and a longtime professor at UCLA, he co-founded the company in 1991 with his former PhD student, Henry 'Nick' Nicholas. Samueli served as the company's chairman and chief technology officer.

He was the technical visionary behind Broadcom, which grew into a technology giant with its chips becoming essential components in a vast range of devices, from set-top boxes and cable modems to smartphones and network switches. The original Broadcom was acquired in 2016 by Avago in a massive deal that created the modern company, Broadcom Inc., where Samueli now serves as chairman of the board. He is also well known as the owner of the National Hockey League's Anaheim Ducks, and he is a major philanthropist through his family's foundation.