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Co-Founder & Director
Susan Samueli was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. She earned a B.S. in Mathematics from UC Berkeley in 1972. From 1972 to 1985 she was with IBM Corporation, where she worked initially as a software programmer in the Federal Systems Division, Westlake Village, CA, and then as a Systems Engineer in the National Marketing Division, Los Angeles, CA, providing technical marketing and sales support for IBM’s mid-range computer systems. In 1985 she left IBM and focused her energy on raising her children, at which time she developed a keen interest in alternative health care. She developed an active consulting practice in the areas of nutrition, homeopathy and Chinese herbs, and subsequently received a Ph.D. degree in nutrition from the American Holistic College of Nutrition in 1993 and a diploma in Homeopathy from the British Institute of Homeopathy in 1994.
Co-Founder & Director
Henry Samueli was born in Buffalo, NY and grew up in Los Angeles, CA. He earned his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from UCLA in 1975, 1976 and 1980, respectively. From 1980 to 1985 he was employed in various engineering and management positions in the Electronics and Technology Division of TRW, Inc., a military communications defense contractor now part of Northrop-Grumman. Since 1985 he has been a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UCLA, and since 2003 he has also served as a Distinguished Adjunct Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at UC Irvine. In 1991 he co-founded Broadcom Corporation, a global leader in providing semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications and took a leave of absence from UCLA in 1995 to be at Broadcom full-time. In 2016 Broadcom Corporation was acquired by Avago Technologies Limited and renamed Broadcom Inc. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Broadcom Inc.
In 2003 the Samueli's took over management of the Honda Center sports and entertainment venue in Anaheim, CA and in 2005 they purchased the Anaheim Ducks National Hockey League (NHL) club from the Walt Disney Company. In 2007 the Anaheim Ducks became the first California team ever to win the NHL Stanley Cup championship. Henry serves on the Executive Committee of the NHL Board of Governors. The Samueli’s also own the San Diego Gulls American Hockey League (AHL) franchise, which serves as the Ducks’ minor-league affiliate. The Samueli Family is currently in the process of developing OCVIBE, a 100-acre district surrounding the Honda Center, which they hope will become an entertainment hub for Orange County.
Board Director
Gordon A. Greenberg regularly represents clients in civil and criminal investigations, as well as in trials and congressional hearings. He has significant experience defending clients in high-stakes, bet-the company matters that have civil and criminal components. Gordon has more than 30 years of experience handling a wide range of business crime investigations and trials.
Previously, Gordon was a federal prosecutor, serving as the chief of the Financial Investigations Unit in the Los Angeles US Attorney’s Office, and was also a state and special federal prosecutor in Chicago. As a prosecutor, he tried several precedent-setting cases including US V. Cuevas, the first extradition of an individual from Switzerland to the United States for money laundering-related offenses, and US v. Barry Minkow, ZZZZ Best, et al., one of the largest securities/money laundering cases tried on the West Coast in the 1980s.
Board Director
Dr. Shaista Malik is the founding Executive Director of the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute and the founding Associate Vice Chancellor of the Susan and Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences at the University of California, Irvine (UCI).
Dr. Malik is also a tenured professor in the University of California division of cardiology, department of medicine and an investigator on several National Institute of Health (NIH) grants, including a career development award from NIH looking at the role of imaging in those with diabetes, and the principal investigator of a grant, looking at the genetic, protein, and imaging markers of early heart disease. She is also the founding medical director of the preventive cardiology and cardiac rehabilitation programs.
Dr. Malik did her undergraduate work at Stanford University and then did her masters in public health and PhD at UCLA. She has been at UCI since medical school and stayed for her residency in internal medicine, cardiology fellowship, and was chief cardiology fellow.
Board Director
Before joining the Foundation’s Board of Directors, Erin served as the Samueli Foundation’s Director of Social Justice Philanthropy, where she led the overall Social Justice portfolio which prioritized grassroots organizing and organizations led by and for communities impacted directly at the intersections of gender/sexual justice, racial, economic and social justice, criminalization, reproductive rights and models for community justice. She also oversaw the Foundation’s collaboration with partners and programs that promote diversity, equity, inclusion and access by building empathy, cultural competency and reducing stereotypes.
Erin was born and raised in Southern California. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Science Education from Boston University in 2017, then a Master of Arts in Education from Stanford University in 2019. She served as a middle school science teacher in San Francisco for a number of years and in her teaching, she focused on equity, anti-racist practices, and hands-on learning experiences. Aside from teaching, Erin began her philanthropy journey by joining the Maverick Collective, where she worked closely with a team in Ethiopia with the goal of integrating adolescent reproductive health care into the school system. She now works as a biochemist and strategist for Prosetta Biosciences, a San Francisco-based biotech startup when she is not fulfilling her board duties.
Erin is passionate about reproductive justice, LGBTQ+ equality, racial justice, education, the environment, among more. She uses these social justice lenses as ways to view her work with the ultimate goal of leveling the playing field in America, and globally, so philanthropy is no longer a necessity. When she’s not trying to change the world, you can probably find her in a forest searching for mushrooms – she is and will always be a fun-gi.
Board Director
Michael Schulman serves as Chief Executive Officer of Anaheim Ducks Hockey Club (ADHC), Chairman of the Board of OC Sports & Entertainment, Chairman of the Board of Anaheim Arena Management (AAM), and Chairman of the Board of the Anaheim Ducks Foundation. He is also an Alternate Governor for both the NHL and AHL Board of Governors, and serves on the board of NHL Enterprises.
In addition, he is managing Director of H&S Ventures, the entity that manages the Samueli Family Office. Schulman reports directly to owners Dr. Henry Samueli and Susan Samueli, and is responsible for managing and long-term planning of their profit and nonprofit entities.
Schulman was the lead negotiator on behalf of the Samueli family in the acquisition of the Honda Center management agreement from the bankruptcy court and the City of Anaheim, and played the key role in extending the lease of AAM and acquiring various properties around Honda Center which formed OCVIBE.
He acts as liaison between the Samueli family and AAM management, and supervises all financial, legal, and charitable decisions of the arena; as well as with the other partners of AAM and the City of Anaheim. In addition, Schulman oversees all long-term capital projects, including the 57 Freeway Marquee, two 360° LED rings, revamping of the video room, new scoreboard and sound system, and remodeling of the company offices and locker rooms.
Schulman also represented the Samueli family in purchase negotiations with Disney for the Anaheim Ducks, and in qualifying the Samueli family for the purchase of the team with the NHL.
Schulman was involved with the family in changing the team name and logo, and forming the Anaheim Ducks Foundation. Schulman led the negotiation with the American Hockey League (AHL) in forming the new AHL Pacific Division along with four other NHL teams. He was the lead negotiator in purchasing the Norfolk AHL team and moving the team to San Diego. He also formed the San Diego Gulls Foundation.
He is responsible for developing additional ice and inline rinks in the Orange County area and was instrumental in the purchase of several ice and inline rinks, including Great Park Ice and FivePoint Arena, and Irvine rinks, and KHS, Lakewood, Poway and Yorba Linda ice rinks. Schulman is the Chairman of THE RINKS Program and oversees its development, including the advancement of the Anaheim Ducks High School Hockey League, California State Championship and the Learn to Play Hockey Program. Schulman spent over 10 years working with the City of Irvine in developing Great Park Ice and FivePoint Arena, and forming the Irvine Ice Foundation, which was responsible for the building of the complex.
Schulman’s role at H&S Ventures is multi-faceted. He is the Managing Director of the family office, which oversees all of the family’s profit and nonprofit operations. H&S Ventures serves as the manager of AAM, ADHC, SDG as well as a number of other business entities in which the Samuelis are involved. Schulman was a founding member, and is a past board member, of the Santa Clara Institute of Sports Law and Ethics and the USC Sports Business Institute (SBI) Advisory Council.
Schulman serves on the boards of AAM, ADHC, Anaheim Sports Holdings, HS Hockey Development, San Diego Gulls Hockey Club and ECH 2101. He is also a current member of the board of the Telluride Ski and Golf Company.
Schulman also serves on many nonprofit boards. He has been a member of the University of California, Irvine Foundation Board since 1991, and CEO Leadership Alliance (CLA-OC) since 2019. He was one of the founding members and past chair of the UCI Planned Giving Leadership Council. Schulman serves on the boards of the Samueli Foundation and Anaheim Ducks Foundation.
After earning his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from University of California, Berkeley, Schulman went on to the University of Santa Clara Law School. In addition, Schulman studied economics for one year at the University of Leeds in England.
Following law school, he was hired as a full-time law professor at the University of Southern California, after which he was a practicing attorney for a number of years and a partner with the law firm of McDermott, Will & Emery.
A native of California, Michael and his wife, Sherry, reside in Laguna Beach and have three children: Danielle, Bryant and Natasha.
Board Director and President
Lindsey Spindle serves as President of the Samueli Family Philanthropies. Appointed by Henry and Susan Samueli in March 2022, Lindsey was brought on to rapidly build a creative, high-performance constellation of activities that can meet their diversified, intensified philanthropic ambitions. Lindsey presides over philanthropic organizations including, but not limited to, the Samueli Foundation and Anaheim Ducks Foundation as a way of providing strategic clarity and increased connectivity across all Samueli-supported philanthropic organizations. Lindsey also serves as a senior strategy advisor for H&S Ventures, the Samueli family office.
Lindsey has been a philanthropy executive for a decade, having partnered with two of America’s most remarkable engineering entrepreneurs, Henry Samueli and Jeff Skoll. Previously she was President of The Jeff Skoll Group, where she connected and advised Mr. Skoll’s portfolio of philanthropic and commercial organizations that include the impact entertainment company Participant, Capricorn Investment Group, and the Skoll Foundation. Lindsey remains a Board director for The Skoll Foundation, serving as chair of the audit and governance committees.
The common thread in Lindsey’s career is her dedication to shaping organizations and campaigns that improve people’s lives, particularly women and children. She was the first-ever Chief Communications and Brand Officer of Share Our Strength, a national nonprofit focused on ending childhood hunger in America through its groundbreaking No Kid Hungry campaign. Under her leadership, The No Kid Hungry campaign won PR Week’s prestigious Nonprofit Campaign of the Year in 2015 and increased participation in federal meal programs by several million children year over year.
Before focusing on domestic hunger eradication, Lindsey spent nearly 20 years in health care communications, policy, and government relations working for some of the nation’s most respected commercial and nonprofit organizations. These include Georgetown University, Brookings, and Porter Novelli. Lindsey has shaped major national campaigns such as the groundbreaking ‘truth’ campaign that curbed youth smoking by 30% in one year and was eventually named by Advertising Age as one of the top ten ad campaigns of the 21st century; increased patient safety through reduced medical errors; and secured bipartisan Congressional funding for improving health care safety and quality.
Lindsey was a member of the pioneer class of girls to attend the Lawrenceville School outside of Princeton, New Jersey, and is a graduate of the University of Michigan. She’s a fourth generation native Washingtonian turned California transplant along with her husband David and two children. In her spare time, Lindsey is a professional hockey fanatic, book-a-week reader, adventurous eater, Boston Terrier lover, and reformed distance runner turned Peloton enthusiast.
