The business makes microchips and licenses intellectual property. Jacobs was CEO for 20 years until 2005, and served as chairman until 2009. The company was soon talking up the virtues of its CDMA wireless communication technology. A diagram that is famous in tech circles shows scores of companies that trace their roots to Linkabit.įollowing its sale in 1980, Jacobs was one of the seven people who founded Qualcomm Inc.
Linkabit specialized in satellite technology and ended up being an economic sparkplug. Irwin Mark Jacobs played a leading role in creating two iconic San Diego companies: Linkabit and Qualcomm Inc. Source of Wealth: Co-founder of Qualcomm Inc. WESTLiving recently sold a portfolio of 9 senior -living communities for $382 million. The Gary and Mary West Foundation recently announced $10 million in support of a new not-for-profit generic drug company, one of many charitable endeavors on the Wests’ part. Gary and Mary West have developed multiple for-profit and nonprofit organizations, including West Development, a hospitality operating company representing Carlsbad-based West Inn & Suites, West Steak and Seafood and West Partners, a private equity and real estate investment firm. when it went private in 2006, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Wests received $1.45 billion for their stake in West Corp. Neither earned a college degree, but they became pioneers in telemarketing for their work building WATS Marketing of America, which was sold in 1980 to First Data Resources, and later West Corp. Gary West moved to Omaha, Neb., at 19, attending Dana College in and serving in the Army during the Vietnam War. Position/Status: Philanthropists and entrepreneurs Kibar’s net worth is based on his stake in Samumed. Kibar has also served as a vice president at Pequot Capital’s venture capital and private equity team. Kibar also co-founded E-Tenna, which made antennas and was split up and sold. He founded Genoptix, a cancer diagnostics company which was sold. The company has a substantial pipeline which includes possible treatments for balding and arthritis.īorn in Izmir, Turkey, Kibar has been in San Diego since his college days at UC San Diego where he got a doctorate in biophotonics. Investors have valued the drugmaker at $12 billion. It recently announced a $438 million funding round and a drug licensing deal that could be worth up to $350 million. Samumed has raised more than $650 million from investors since 2008. Osman Kibar is the founder and chief executive of Samumed LLC, a local biotech company that’s developing anti-aging therapies in San Diego. Source of Wealth: Samumed’s private valuation
She is an equestrian who has competed in show jumping competitions. Meyer was raised in Switzerland and graduated from Menlo College and San Diego State University. She is the current board chair of Feeding San Diego, an affiliate of Feeding America, which she co-founded in 2007. The family still owns about 88 percent of the company, though no family members are active in the company.
She owns about 11 percent of the company, according to Bloomberg. Meyer is a fifth-generation family shareholder of Cargill, a Wayzata, Minn.-based commodities conglomerate believed to be the largest privately held company in the U.S. A noteworthy exception is her work with the Feeding San Diego organization. who lives in Rancho Santa Fe, continues to keep a low profile in the region. Gwendolyn Sontheim Meyer, an heiress to the agribusiness Cargill Inc. Source of Wealth: Heir to founders of the Cargill company GWENDOLYN SONTHEIM MEYER GWENDOLYN SONTHEIM MEYER
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