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OC’s CENTIMILLIONAIRES

EDWARD C. ALLRED

Owner, Rosemead-based Family Planning Associates Medical Group Inc.; owner, chief executive, Los Alamitos Race Course

EYAL ARONOFF

Cofounder, former chief technology officer, Aliso Viejo-based Quest Software Inc.; author of software development books

ART ASTOR

Owner, chief executive, president, radio stations KSPA-AM 1510, KFSD-AM 1450, KCEO-AM 1000; owner, Astor Classics Events Center

DONALD B. AYRES JR.

Southern California postwar homebuilder; founder, Costa Mesa-based Ayres Hotel Group

ALFRED BALDWIN

Cofounder, former Newport Beach-based homebuilder Baldwin Co.; principal, Otay Ranch Co.

DAVID BEAUCHAMP

Investor; heir of Orange-based Western Dental Services Inc. founder Robert F. Beauchamp

DONALD R. BEALL

Partner, Dartbrook Partners LLC; retired chairman, chief executive, Rockwell International Corp.

SCOTT BORAS

Leading agent for baseball players; president, owner, Scott Boras Corp.; inked $300 million contract for N.Y. Yankee Alex Rodriguez, largest in baseball to date; elaborate Newport Center headquarters, Newport Coast home

RICHARD JOHN “RJ” BRANDES

Founder, commercial real estate finance and mortgage company Belgravia Capital Corp., sold to Arizona’s Finova Group Inc. in 1997; sold Belgravia Financial Services LLC, a lender to mobile home buyers, to Ford Motor Credit Co.; director, majority owner of Irvine’s Gatekeeper Systems Inc., a maker of shopping cart theft prevention gear

JANE BUCHAN

Chief executive, managing director, Irvine-based Pacific Alternative Asset Management Co.; associate editor of the Journal of Alternative Investments; on board of several funds at Carlson Capital LP

KOBE BryANT

Los Angeles Lakers guard and five-time NBA champion; signed three-year, $87 million contract extension in 2010; annual earnings from contract and endorsements estimated at $53 million; Newport Coast resident

ALLEN CHAO

Chairman, managing partner, Irvine-based healthcare investor and consultant Newport Healthcare Advisors LLC; cofounder, former chairman, chief executive, Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc.

CHIH-MING J. CHEN

Founder, chairman, chief executive, Irvine-based generic drug maker Anchen Pharmaceuticals Inc.

LODWRICK “LOD” COOK

Chief executive, Newport Beach-based real estate investor Cook Hill Properties LLC; vice chairman, Beverly Hills-based venture capital firm Pacific Capital Group; chairman emeritus, former chief executive, Atlantic Richfield Co.

JACK CROUL

Former owner, Santa Ana paint maker Behr Process Corp., sold in 1999 to Michigan’s Masco Corp.; owner of Newport Beach’s Cannery restaurant

SANDRA “SANDY” SEGERSTROM DANIELS

Co-managing partner of Costa Mesa-based C.J. Segerstrom & Sons LLC (see related story, Generation W, page 1)

H.K. DESAI

Chairman, former longtime chief executive, Aliso Viejo-based networking electronics maker QLogic Corp.; recently gave up CEO’s job in second attempt at transition

DAVID DOYLE

Cofounder, Aliso Viejo-based Quest Software Corp.; started then Irvine-based company in 1993, left company in 2002; said to have wine collection totaling as many as 10,000 bottles in the tech industry’s boom years

RANNEY DRAPER

Founder, principal owner of Costa Mesa-based shopping center developer Diversified Shopping Centers, sold in 1998 to Costa Mesa’s Donahue Schriber; chairman, Newport Beach-based real estate investor Spring Creek Investors LLC

FRITZ L. DUDA SR.

Founder, chairman, real estate developer, owner, Fritz Duda Co., which is based in Dallas and has offices in Newport Beach

ANDREW EDWARDS

Owner, president, Anaheim-based audio-video presentation gear maker Extron Electronics Inc.; owner, North Carolina’s Qextron Inc., software maker for labs, hospitals

KENNETH FAIT

Principal, Costa Mesa-based Facilities Management West; co-owner, Fait Family Trust, with investments in energy, real estate, mobile homes, engineering, computer software and cattle operations

ANTHONY FANTICOLA

Retired owner, chairman, chief executive, A. Fanticola Cos., Oil Express Inc., Lube Pit Inc. (parent companies of Jiffy Lube franchises); director, Salt Lake City-based ExtraSpace Storage Inc.

DAVID GELBAUM

Trustee, Newport Beach-based green technology investor Quercus Trust; chairman, chief executive, Fort Worth, Texas-based Entech Solar Inc.

WILLIAM GILLESPIE

Philanthropist; grandson, heir to the founder of Los Angeles-based Farmers Insurance Group of Cos.

JIM GLIDEWELL

Chief executive, president, Newport Beach-based dental products company Glidewell Laboratories; family trust recently sold building to Chapman University for $3.3 million

CLIFFORD HEINZ

Cofounder, Aliso Viejo-based Quest Software Corp.; started then Irvine-based company in 1993, left company in 2002; said to have wine collection totaling as many as 10,000 bottles in the tech industry’s boom years

ANTHONY HSIEH

Founder, Irvine’s HomeLoanCenter.com, sold to LendingTree LLC in 2004; founder, chief executive of Foothill Ranch-based online mortgage lender LoanDepot.com; owner, Crow’s Nest Yachts in Newport Beach

LAP SHUN “JOHN” HUI

Owner, Chino-based office products company Joui International LLC; former owner, eMachines Inc., sold in 2004 to Gateway Inc., now part of Acer Inc.

KHOSRO KHALOGHLI

Principal, Newport Beach-based real estate developer, apartment owner Caspian Properties Inc.; came from Iran, made fortune developing offices and apartments; home in Newport Beach, 35,000-square-foot Venetian-style compound in Cambria

JOSEPH KIANI

Founder, chairman, chief executive, Irvine-based patient-monitoring device maker Masimo Corp., among fastest-growing public companies here last year

SONNY KING

Founder, chief executive, Irvine-based grocery products marketing company Advantage Sales and Marketing LLC; London-based private equity firm Apax Partners LLC bought a majority stake in the company for $1.8 billion late last year

DONALD KENNEDY

Chairman emeritus, Santa Ana-based title insurer First American Corp. (now First American Financial Corp.); retired from board in 2008; title insurance company founded by grandfather C.E. Parker in 1894

DEAN KOONTZ

Suspense novelist; 12 hardcover books and 14 paperbacks have reached the No. 1 slot on N.Y. Times bestseller list; in 2008 said to be world’s sixth-highest-paid author with $25 million in earnings.

WILLIAM LINK

Cofounder, Newport Beach-based managing director of Menlo Park’s Versant Venture Management LLC; chairman, Laguna Hills-based eye device maker Glaukos Corp.; cofounder, Irvine’s Chiron Vision Corp., maker of eye-surgery devices sold to Bausch & Lomb Inc. in 1997; founder of eye surgery business in 1977 that evolved into Advanced Medical Optics Inc., company sold to Abbott Laboratories in 2009

GEORGE LOPEZ

Founder, chairman, chief executive, president, San Clemente-based medical device maker ICU Medical Inc.; company listed among largest medical device makers here last year

JAMES MELLOR

Former chairman, chief executive, General Dynamic Corp.; chairman and member of nominating and governance committee for USEC Inc., a supplier of enriched uranium fuel for commercial nuclear power plants

ANTHONY MOISO AND FAMILY

Chief executive, president, San Juan Capistrano-based real estate developer, owner, Rancho Mission Viejo LLC

MANOUCH MOSHAYEDI

Chairman, chief executive, Santa Ana-based STEC Inc.

MARK MOSHAYEDI

President, chief operating officer, chief technology officer, STEC Inc.

MIKE MOSHAYEDI

Cofounder, STEC Inc.

Iran natives who started up storage drive maker STEC Inc.; products replacing traditional disk drives, built into computers bought by banks, retailers, and others; company valued at more than $1 billion this year

MICHAEL MUSSALLEM

Chairman, chief executive, Irvine-based heart valve maker Edwards Lifesciences Corp.; company expects approval of U.S. sales for Edwards Sapien heart valve later this year; device seen as breakthrough for less-invasive procedures

JAMES MUZZY

Cofounder, retired managing director, Newport Beach-based bond fund manager Pacific Investment Management Co.

CRAIG NICKOLOFF

Founder, Irvine-based Claim Jumper Restaurants LLC, sold to Los Angeles-based private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners LP in 2005, which was sold in 2010 to Houston-based Landry’s Restaurants Inc.; chairman, Irvine-based investment firm Nickoloff Cos.

MILAN PANIC

Founder, former chief executive, ICN Pharmaceuticals Inc., now Canada-based drug maker Valeant Pharmaceuticals International; chairman, chief executive, Santa Ana-based clinical and diagnostics products maker MP Biomedicals Inc.

WILLIAM PODLICH

Cofounder, retired chief executive, Newport Beach-based Pacific Investment Management Co.; philanthropist

DAVID PYOTT

Chairman, chief executive, Irvine-based drug maker Allergan Inc.; Botox-maker CEO has made more than $104 million in past five years, according to Forbes; been with company 13 years

JOHN PAUL REDDAM

Founder, chief executive, Anaheim-based CashCall Inc.; founder, former chief executive, Irvine’s DiTech Funding Corp., sold in 1999 to GMAC Inc., now Ally Financial Inc.

JOHN SAUNDERS

Chairman, Core Realty Holdings LLC, owner of 10.6 million square feet of apartments, other commercial real estate; owner, Newport Beach collectibles dealer London Coin Galleries Inc.

JOSEPH S. SCHUCHERT JR.

Chairman, Newport Beach-based investment manager First Q Capital LLC; founder, CEO of New York-based private equity firm Kelso & Co.

HENRY SEGERSTROM

Co-managing partner, Costa Mesa-based C.J. Segerstrom & Sons; public face of family that’s Costa Mesa’s largest land and property owner; runs South Coast Plaza, Plaza Tower and other offices; namesake of county’s arts center

KOSTI SHIRVANIAN

Owner, Gardena-based Waste Resources Inc.; founder, Western Waste Industries, sold in 1995 to U.S.A. Waste Services, now Waste Management Inc.

CHAD STEELBERG

Chief technology officer, Irvine-based Brand Affinity Technologies Inc.

RYAN STEELBERG

Co-founder, Brand Affinity Technologies Inc. Entrepreneurial brothers are co-founders of Irvine-based Brand Affinity Technologies Inc., which hooks up athletes and celebrities with advertisers via an online network; company had revenue of $26 million last year; in 2002, they started Irvine radio advertising company dMarc Broadcasting Inc. and sold it in 2006 to Google Inc.

EDWARD THORP

President, Newport Beach-based hedge fund operator Edward O. Thorp and Associates LP; author of Beat the Dealer, 1962 book credited as the first to mathematically prove how to win at blackjack by card counting

PETER UEBERROTH

Managing director, Newport Beach-based private equity firm Contrarian Group Inc.; in the 1980s, Ueberroth was Major League Baseball’s commissioner and served as president of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee

DAVID WILSON

Chairman, chief executive, Orange-based David Wilson Automotive Group, owner of Newport Lexus, Toyota of Orange, other auto dealerships

KENNETH WALKER

Former chief executive, Farmers & Merchants Bank; president, Long Beach main office; grandson of founder C.J. Walker

JIM WARMINGTON SR.

Former chairman, president, Costa Mesa-based Warmington Homes; grandson of founder William C. Warmington

LOUIS WELCH

President, Irvine-based LA Fitness International LLC; head of fast-growing gym operator reportedly paid $34.5 million for Emerald Bay home in 2008, one of OC’s most expensive home sales

MARK WETTERAU

Chairman, chief executive, majority owner, Irvine-based food distributor Golden State Foods Corp.; co-principal, St. Louis-based Wetterau Associates

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