Our listing of OC’s wealthiest people captures the richest of the rich here. But it only scratches the surface. We’ve come across other wealthy Orange County residents or people who’ve made fortunes here. Here’s a list of those estimated to be worth $100 million or more, though an exact number is hard to pin down.
Peter Adderton
Founder, Boost Mobile LLC; founder, Los Angeles-based Amp’d Mobile Inc.
Art Astor
Owner, chief executive, president, radio stations KSPA-AM 1510, KFSD-AM 1450, KCEO-AM 1000; owner Astor Classics Events Center
Alfred and James Baldwin
Principals, Otay Ranch Co.
Donald Beall
Partner, Dartbrook Partners LLC; retired chairman, chief executive, Rockwell International; director, Rockwell Collins Inc., Conexant Systems Inc., Mindspeed Technologies Inc., CT Realty Corp.
Larry Bedrosian
Chief executive, Fresno-based Bedrosians; real estate owner
SCOTT BORAS
President, owner, Scott Boras Corp.
Richard John “R.J.” Brandes
Founder, Belgravia Capital Corp., Belgravia Financial Service; chief executive, Blenheim EquiSports of California Inc.; chairman, Gatekeeper Systems Inc.
CARY BREN
Owner, president, Irvine-based California Pacific Homes Inc.
STANELY CASTLETON
Resort developer, chief executive, DDRM GreatPlace LLC, president Stanwill Cos.
JACK CROUL
Former owner, Behr Process Corp.; owner Cannery, Seafood of the Pacific
PETER COOPER
Founding partner, manager, Cooper Capital LLC
Walter Cruttenden
Chairman, chief executive, Newport Beach-based Cruttenden Partners LLC
Sandra Segerstrom Daniels
Managing partner, C.J. Segerstrom & Sons
RONALD DAVIES
Retired senior vice chairman, MBNA Corp.
H.K. Desai
Chairman, chief executive, QLogic Corp.
Lawrence “Larry” Dodge
Chairman, chief executive, Foothill Ranch-based American Sterling Group of Cos.
DAVID DOYLE
Cofounder, Aliso Viejo-based Quest Software Corp.
RANNEY DRAPER
Chairman, Spring Creek Investors LLC
Sanford Edward
President, Headlands Reserve LLC
Robert J. Eichenberg, LaDorna Ellison Eichenberg
Cofounders, co-chairs, Lake Forest-based Ellison Educational Equipment Inc.
ANTHONY FANTICOLA
Retired owner, chairman, chief executive, A. Fanticola Cos., Oil Express Inc., Lube Pit Inc., parent companies of Jiffy Lube franchises; director, ExtraSpace Storage Inc.
AL FRINK
Cofounder, Santa Ana-based Fabrica International, now part of Dixie Group Inc.
Paul Folino
Executive chairman, Emulex Corp.;
philanthropist
Jim GlidEwell
Chief executive, president, Glidewell Laboratories
Doy Henley
Chairman, National R.V. Holdings Inc.; founder, retired chairman, chief executive, Aeromil Engineering Co.
Gavin Herbert
Founder, chairman emeritus, Allergan Inc.; chairman, co-owner of Corona del Mar nursery Rogers Gardens; owns La Casa Pacifica, former Nixon summer compound in San Clemente
Roger C. Hobbs
Chief executive, president, R.C. Hobbs Co.; president Century American Corp.
ROBERT “BOB” HOFF
General partner, Crosspoint Venture Partners
Barry Hon
President, Hon Development Corp.
Anthony Hsieh
Founder, LendingTree LLC’s HomeLoanCenter.com
LAP SHUN “JOHN” HUI
Owner, EM Holdings; founder eMachines Inc.
Fletcher Jones Jr.
Chief executive, president, Fletcher Jones Management Group
SONNY KING
Chief executive, Advantage Sales and Marketing LLC
ROGER KIRWAN
Founder, chairman, chief executive, Woodside Credit LLC
Donald Kennedy
Chairman emeritus, Santa Ana-based First American Corp.
DON KOLL
Principal, Koll Co.
Dean Koontz
Suspense novelist
Stephanie and Daniel Kwock
Major shareholders, Costa Mesa’s
Volcom Inc.
Gilbert LeVasseur Jr.
Chairman, chief executive, LeVasseur Capital Partners LLC
GEORGE LOPEZ
Founder, chairman, chief executive, president, San Clemente-based ICU Medical Inc.
CHARLES MARTIN
Chairman, chief executive, chief investment officer, Mont Pelerin Capital LLC; partner emeritus, Westar Capital LLC
LYNSI MARTINEZ
Owner, In-N-Out Burgers Inc.
FARIBORZ MASEEH
Founder, IntelliSense Corp.; managing principal, founder, Picoco LLC; philanthropist
ChARLES Mathewson
Chairman emeritus, Reno-based International Game Technology
James Mellor
Former chairman, chief executive General Dynamics Corp.
ANTHONY MOISO AND FAMILY
Chief executive, president, Rancho Mission Viejo LLC
James Muzzy
Cofounder, managing director, Newport Beach-based Pacific Investment Management Co.
CRAIG NICKOLOFF
Founder, Chief executive, Claim Jumper Restaurants LLC
Milan Panic
Founder, former chief executive, ICN Pharmaceuticals Inc., now Valeant Pharmaceuticals International; chief executive, MP Biomedicals Inc.
James M. Peters Jr.
Founder, J.M. Peters Co., now Capital Pacific Holdings Inc.
WILLIAM PODLICH
Cofounder, Pacific Investment Management Co.; philanthropist, Democratic activist
John Paul Reddam
Founder, former chief executive, DiTech Funding Corp.; founder, Irvine-based CashCall Inc.; owns racehorses
RODNEY SACKS
Chairman, chief executive, Hansen Natural Corp.
JOHN SAUNDERS
Chairman, Core Realty Holdings LLC; owner, London Coin Galleries Inc.
Stephen Scarborough
Chief executive, Standard Pacific Corp.
HILTON SCHLOSBERG
Vice chairman, chief operating officer, chief financial officer, president, Hansen Natural Corp.
Henry Segerstrom
Managing partner, C.J. Segerstrom & Sons
Pawan Seth
Drug developer, founder, Pharma Pass LLC, now part of Canada’s Biovail Corp
KOSTI SHIRVANIAN
Founder, Western Waste Industries
Donald Sodaro
Chairman, president, Newport Beach-based Hanford Hotels Inc.
ARTHUR SVENDSEN
Founder, former chairman,
chief executive, Standard
Pacific Corp.
David Threshie
Former chairman, family director,
Irvine-based Freedom Communications Inc.
EDWARD ThoRP
President, Edward O. Thorp & Associates; mathematician, author of “Beat the Dealer: A Winning Strategy for the Game of Twenty-One”
Peter Ueberroth
Chairman, U.S. Olympic Committee; managing director, Newport Beach-based Contrarian Group
RAY WATT
Director, Newport Beach-based John Laing Homes
Greg Weaver
Retired chairman, Anaheim-based Pacific Sunwear of California Inc.
DAVID WILSON
Owner, Orange-based David Wilson’s Automotive Group
KENNETH WALKER
Chief executive, Farmers &
Merchants Bank
MICHAEL WILSON
Chief executive, Makena Technologies Inc.; employee No. 4, eBay Inc.
Mark Wetterau
Chairman, chief executive, majority owner, Irvine-based Golden State Foods Corp.; chief executive, St. Louis-based Wetterau Associates
RAY WIRTA
Vice chairman, Los Angeles-based CB Richard Ellis Group Inc.; executive chairman, interim chief executive, CBRE Realty Finance Inc.
REN & #201; WOOLCOTT
AND RICHARD WOOLCOTT
Chairman; chief executive,
Volcom Inc.
