Broadcom cofounder Henry Samueli is a billionaire, corporate boss, philanthropist and world-class scientist whose name graces engineering schools at UCLA and UCI. But he’d never drawn a media swarm like the one that descended on The Pond for his first press conference as owner of a professional hockey team. Samueli adviser and new Mighty Ducks’ CEO Mike Schulman says Samueli had phone conversations recently with half a dozen business-accomplished NHL owners, including AOL vice chairman and Washington Capitals majority owner Ted Leonsis. They told Samueli to brace for “more press and a different press,” Schulman said …
Samueli already has experience with a hockey team,a winning one. The Broadcom Pulse, comprised mostly of company employees, graduated this year to the Novice A league at Aliso Viejo Ice Palace after “three-peating” as champions at the B level. Samueli, an admitted “lousy” skater, has honorary jersey number 91 (for the year he cofounded Broadcom), while former CEO Lanny Ross has jersey number 95 (for the year he joined the board) …
The Insider hears that Lennar Corp.’s ambitious residential-retail-commercial plan for Anaheim’s Platinum Triangle has a working title: A-Town …
Jerry Brown and new wife Anne Gust were set to attend a belated wedding reception Saturday aboard the Newport Beach yacht of Milan Panic …
Latham & Watkins, led by OC office partner Charles Ruck, represented Harrah’s Entertainment in its $10 billion acquisition of Caesars Entertainment …
Most notable no-show at the OC Republican Party’s 1,000-person Flag Day dinner: The man who used to run it, past chairman Tom Fuentes …
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After only 10 months at land broker O’Donnell/Atkins, Ernie Schneider has returned to engineering firm Hunsaker & Associates, as COO. Meanwhile, Schneider’s better half, Laguna Beach Mayor Elizabeth Pearson-Schneider reminds the Insider of a small-scale Rudy Giuliani with her tireless efforts on behalf of the Bluebird Canyon landslide victims …
SBC California spokesman John Stratman has joined Faubel Public Affairs in Lake Forest as a VP …
Campus humor: At the dedication of the Jao Family Sculpture Garden in UCI’s Aldridge Park, Humanities Dean Karen Lawrence noted that philosopher Lao Tzu’s long ears symbolized wisdom. “I’m trying to do it with earrings,” she quipped. Separately, there was a bit of unintended humor when UC system Prez Robert Dynes introduced incoming UCI Chancellor Michael Drake. The university is “a flower ready to explode …
I mean, blossom,” Dynes said, as students and faculty chuckled.
