OTHER CENTIMILLIONAIRES
Our listing of OC’s 20 wealthiest people captures the richest of the rich here. But it only scratches the surface. In our research, we came across other wealthy Orange County residents or people who’ve made fortunes here. Here’s a list of those believed to worth around $100 million or more, though an exact number is hard to pin down.
Arnold Beckman
Founder, Beckman Instruments, now Fullerton-based Beckman Coulter Inc.; Irvine-based Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation has given $350
million to research
Larry Bedrosian
Chief executive, Fresno-based Bedrosians; real estate owner
Scott Blum
Founder, Buy.com Inc., Enfrastructure Inc., now TechSpace, both of Aliso Viejo; founder, Jackson, Wyo.-based ThinkTank LLC
R.J. Brandes
Founder, Belgravia Capital Corp., Belgravia Financial Services;
chief executive, Blenheim EquiSports of California LLC
ALLEN CHAO
Chairman, chief executive, president, Corona-based Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. (lives in Anaheim Hills, UCI donor)
PETER COOPER
Founding partner, Irvine-based Cooper & LeVasseur LLC; chairman, Seattle-based Jones Soda Co.
John Crean
Founder, retired chairman, Riverside-based Fleetwood Enterprises Inc.;
owns Village Crean in Santa Ana Heights; developer of Crean Acres, Hemet; philanthropist
Walter Cruttenden
Chairman, chief executive, Newport Beach-based Cruttenden Partners LLC
H.K. Desai
Chairman, chief executive, president, QLogic Corp.
JAMES DOWNEY
Founder, chief executive, majority owner, Huntington Beach-based C & D; Aerospace
DAVID DOYLE
President, cofounder, Irvine-based Quest Software Corp.
Paul Folino
Chairman, chief executive, Costa Mesa-based Emulex Corp.; philanthropist
Jim GlidEwell
Chief executive, president, Newport Beach-based Glidewell Laboratories
Michael Harrah
President, Santa Ana-based Caribou Industries Inc.
Doy Henley
Chairman, chief executive, Bruce Properties Inc.; philanthropist; GOP activist; former owner of Aeromil Engineering Co., now part of Santa Ana-based Compass Aerospace Corp. (still owns Aeromil building)
Gavin Herbert
Founder, Allergan Inc.; owns Corona del Mar nursery Rogers Gardens; owns part of La Casa Pacifica, former Nixon
summer compound in San Clemente
Robert Hoff
General partner, Irvine office of Crosspoint Venture Partners
Fletcher Jones Jr.
Chief executive, president, Fletcher Jones Management Group
DON KOLL
Principal, The Koll Company
Dean Koontz
Best-selling suspense novelist
Gilbert LeVasseur Jr.
Founding partner, Irvine-based Cooper & LeVasseur LLC
GEORGE LOPEZ
Founder, chairman, chief executive,
president, San Clemente-based ICU Medical Inc.
WILLIAM LYON
Chairman, chief executive, William Lyon Homes Inc.
MAURICE McALISTER
Chairman, Downey Financial Corp.
HADI
MAKARECHIAN
Chairman, chief executive, president, Newport Beach-based Capital Pacific Holdings Inc.
CHARLES MARTIN
Founder, former managing partner, Enterprise Partners Venture Capital; partner emeritus, Costa Mesa-based Westar Capital LLC
Robert Martini
Chairman, Valley Forge, Pa.-based AmerisourceBergen Corp.
James Mellor
Director, AmerisourceBergen Corp., General Dynamics Corp.
DAVID MOORE
Chairman, chief executive, Corinthian Colleges Inc.
James Muzzy
Cofounder, managing director, Newport Beach-based Pacific Investment Management Co.
Augustine “Augie” Nieto
Founder, chairman, Life Fitness, now part of Brunswick Corp.; adviser, North Castle Partners LLC
Patrick Paddon
Chief executive, president, Santa Ana-based California First National Bancorp, formerly Amplicon Inc.
Milan Panic
Founder, former chief executive, Costa Mesa-based ICN Pharmaceuticals Inc.; founder MP Global Enterprises & Associates LLC, Costa Mesa
WILLIAM PODLICH
Cofounder, Newport Beach-based Pacific Investment Management Co.; philanthropist; Democratic activist
Frank Pritt
Chairman, chief executive, Bellevue, Wash.-based Attachmate Corp. (lives in Newport Beach)
Paul Reddam
Founder, former chief executive, DiTech Funding Corp.; owns real estate
brokerage Relantis of Irvine; owns race horse Swept Overboard
Henry Segerstrom
Managing partner, minority owner, Costa Mesa-based C.J. Segerstrom & Sons
Ron Simon
Chief executive, Newport Beach-based RSI Holding Corp., owner of RSI Home Products, marble countertop maker General Marble
ESTHER Snyder
President, primary owner, Irvine-based In-N-Out Burgers
David Threshie
Chairman, Irvine-based Freedom Communications Inc.
Peter Ueberroth
Managing director, Newport Beach-based The Contrarian Group; chairman, Newport Beach-based Ambassadors International Inc.
James Williams
Former chief executive and part owner, Irvine-based Golden State Foods Corp.
